On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:42:28PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> Wanted to get a discussion started, there has been a few requests >> lately for our ec2 images to be made available for general consumption. >> either for use in a different cloud provider to ec2, or for use at home >> with kvm or private cloud. often the requestors reference >> http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/10.10/release/ im all for making >> fedora easier to consume. I made a qcow2 format image for f17 that came >> in at 610M, i also tarred and xz compressed the f16 ec2 raw disk and >> that came in at 114M the raw disk images are 10G > > Based on the size differential there between qcow2 + xz raw format, > I'm guessing you didn't turn on QCow2 compression ? I don't think > QCow2 would get near xz size, but I think it should hve done better > than 610 MB. yes it does, I got 200MB qcow2 compressed image: 200M Feb 6 12:46 Fedora-16-ec2-20111101-x86_64-sda.qcow2 Alan _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
