Hi John, AFAIK the shell scripts shipped with OpenNebula are just a sample of how things can be accomplished. You should adapt those scripts to your needs, and modify them to create the image with qemu-img.
Cheers, Pau. 2011/12/13 Jhon Masschelein <jhon.masschel...@sara.nl> > Hi, > > I am having troubles creating qcow2 datablocks using oneimage. > > According to > http://opennebula.org/**documentation:rel3.0:img_**template<http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.0:img_template>the > oneimage template can contain a DRIVER parameter (optional) that can be > KVM: raw, qcow2. > > I created a template (borrowed from the web page): > > NAME = "Experiment results" > TYPE = DATABLOCK > # No PATH set, this image will start as a new empty disk > SIZE = 204800 > FSTYPE = ext3 > PUBLIC = NO > DESCRIPTION = "Storage for my Thesis experiments." > DRIVER = qcow2 > > where I added the DRIVER line. > > Creating the image using oneimage create image.txt does however not create > a qcow image: > ls -hl /var/lib/one/images/**c0dc71ebe6562d4e8c9e186b249bff**13 > -rw-rw---- 1 oneadmin oneadmin 201G Dec 13 15:15 /var/lib/one/images/** > c0dc71ebe6562d4e8c9e186b249bff**13 > file /var/lib/one/images/**c0dc71ebe6562d4e8c9e186b249bff**13 > /var/lib/one/images/**c0dc71ebe6562d4e8c9e186b249bff**13: Linux rev 1.0 > ext3 filesystem data (large files) > > Looking at the source, I thinkg I found where the image gets created > (please correct me if I am wrong here): > /src/image_mad/remotes/fs/mkfs > > In this script, the image is allways created using dd. There is no check > for the driver and no qemu-img possibility. > > It looks like oneimage can only create raw datablocks which is a pitty. We > realy would like to use the small qcow2 format. > > Now I do not mind adding the functionality myself if it is not available > at the moment, I just want to be sure I am not duplicating work. :) > > I am aware I can use the qemu-img command myself to create those > datablocks, but I would like the sunstone interface to be able to create > them automatically, so I need a oneimage template that makes this work. > > Best regards, > > Jhon > ______________________________**_________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.opennebula.org > http://lists.opennebula.org/**listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.**org<http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org> > -- ---------------------------------- Pau Tallada Crespí Dep. d'Astrofísica i Cosmologia Port d'Informació Científica (PIC) Tel: +34 93 586 8233 ----------------------------------
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