image formats

2012-12-14 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 02:04:40PM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > So I read that as "we are currently making images for ec2 AND currently > making images for other cloud systems as well (presumably as part of the > release engineering process" which is what I meant by "what are the > other ima

Re: image formats

2012-12-14 Thread David Nalley
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 02:04:40PM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: >> So I read that as "we are currently making images for ec2 AND currently >> making images for other cloud systems as well (presumably as part of the >> release engineering pro

Re: image formats

2012-12-17 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 04:14:01PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: > > (Eucalyptus can't digest qcow2.) And I'm afraid they will have to be > > compressed because there's no reasonable way to make them a downloadable > > yet useful size. > VHD and VMDK might also be useful formats. Yeah. As I understan

Re: image formats

2012-12-17 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 04:14:01PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: > > > (Eucalyptus can't digest qcow2.) And I'm afraid they will have to be > > > compressed because there's no reasonable way to make them a downloadable > > > yet useful size. > > VHD a

Re: image formats

2012-12-17 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:48:28PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Yeah. As I understand it, CloudStack uses different formats depending on > > the hypervisor used, right? > Is it best to produce one image and scripts for post-processing it into the > appropriate formats, or to simply produce the

Re: image formats

2012-12-17 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 2012-12-17 10:48, Bill Nottingham wrote: Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) said: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 04:14:01PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: (Eucalyptus can't digest qcow2.) And I'm afraid they will have to be compressed because there's no reasonable way to make them a downloadable

raw and qcow2 [was Re: image formats]

2012-12-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 08:57:47PM -0800, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > >Is it best to produce one image and scripts for post-processing it into the > >appropriate formats, or to simply produce them all? > > Unless the various formats are fundamentally different, if we're > looking for portability th