Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Raw vs Qcow2 images_type in nova/libvirt

2015-01-20 Thread Dmitry Guryanov
On 01/20/2015 12:18 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 19/01/15 20:41, Michael Still wrote: Mostly. qcow2 can do a copy on write layer, although it can be disabled IIRC. So if COW is turned on, you get only the delta in the instance directory when using qcow2. Cheers, Michael On Tue, Jan 20, 2015

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Raw vs Qcow2 images_type in nova/libvirt

2015-01-20 Thread Dmitry Guryanov
On 01/19/2015 11:41 PM, Michael Still wrote: Mostly. qcow2 can do a copy on write layer, although it can be disabled IIRC. So if COW is turned on, you get only the delta in the instance directory when using qcow2. It seems you have to set images_type=raw (or use_cow_images=false) to disable

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Raw vs Qcow2 images_type in nova/libvirt

2015-01-19 Thread Dmitry Guryanov
Hello, Do I understand correctly, that both Qcow2 and Raw classes in libvirt/imagebackend.py can work with images in qcow2 format, but Raw copies the whole base image from cache to the instance's dir and Qcow2 only creates a delta (and use base image from cache)? -- Dmitry Guryanov

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Raw vs Qcow2 images_type in nova/libvirt

2015-01-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 19/01/15 20:41, Michael Still wrote: Mostly. qcow2 can do a copy on write layer, although it can be disabled IIRC. So if COW is turned on, you get only the delta in the instance directory when using qcow2. Cheers, Michael On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Dmitry Guryanov

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Raw vs Qcow2 images_type in nova/libvirt

2015-01-19 Thread Michael Still
Mostly. qcow2 can do a copy on write layer, although it can be disabled IIRC. So if COW is turned on, you get only the delta in the instance directory when using qcow2. Cheers, Michael On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Dmitry Guryanov dgurya...@parallels.com wrote: Hello, Do I understand