Public bug reported: In Icehouse, Glance added a new field, 'virtual_size', to hold the virtual size (as opposed to on-disk size) of sparsed or compressed images: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/split-image-size
In most cases, this is far more valuable to know than the on-disk size of an image; for instance, the official Fedora 21 QCOW2 image is only 150 Mb on disk, but is a 3 Gb image. But Horizon displays the on-disk size in both the image detail view, and in the launch instance modal. The latter is particularly bad, since it can lead to confusion about whether an image can be launched on a flavor of a given size. (Displaying the on-disk size leads one to believe that the Fedora 21 image could be launched on an m1.tiny, for instance -- 150 Mb < 1 Gb, after all -- but it can't, because the image virtual size is greater than 1 Gb.) When an image has a virtual size, it should be displayed in the image detail and in the launch instance modal. ** Affects: horizon Importance: Undecided Assignee: Chris St. Pierre (stpierre) Status: In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1420944 Title: Display image virtual size Status in OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon): In Progress Bug description: In Icehouse, Glance added a new field, 'virtual_size', to hold the virtual size (as opposed to on-disk size) of sparsed or compressed images: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/split-image-size In most cases, this is far more valuable to know than the on-disk size of an image; for instance, the official Fedora 21 QCOW2 image is only 150 Mb on disk, but is a 3 Gb image. But Horizon displays the on-disk size in both the image detail view, and in the launch instance modal. The latter is particularly bad, since it can lead to confusion about whether an image can be launched on a flavor of a given size. (Displaying the on-disk size leads one to believe that the Fedora 21 image could be launched on an m1.tiny, for instance -- 150 Mb < 1 Gb, after all -- but it can't, because the image virtual size is greater than 1 Gb.) When an image has a virtual size, it should be displayed in the image detail and in the launch instance modal. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1420944/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp