Re: CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw very unusual format

[Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 March 2016 at 11:51, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 21/03/16 14:34, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote:
> > What is the point to pack single raw file into the tar.gz and to name it
> raw ?
> > Or it's just a mistake ?
> >
> >
>
> Johnny is looking at the cdn side of thigs, but effectively we will not
> have a .raw - we will have a .raw.tar.gz file ( which will itself only
> have a .raw file compressed inside it )
>
>
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Why not a compressed qcow2?

Like: CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2c

This way, we can add it as-is to OpenStack Glance, that it will be
downloaded by demand, when required and, OpenStack Nova will automatically
uncompress the image for runtime.

Cheers!
Thiago
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