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[Chris Behrens <chris.behrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's currently no parsing of manifest.ovf in an .ova.  nova assumes that an 'image.vhd' exists within the .ova archive if disk_format is vhd..

- Chris


On Sep 23, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It would be really cool if there were openstack examples for each
>> container/image format.
> 
> Agreed. This is something we can work on better in the Essex release
> series indeed.
> 
>> I don’t currently understand how the container format connects into the
>> actual image (and the result with nova-compute).
>> Since it seems like say when u upload an iso, ovf doesn’t make sense (so
>> would that be the bare type?)
>> Or if u do the following “disk_format=vhd container_format=ovf type=raw” <
>> windows.ova why is it needed to specify the disk_format? Isn’t that part of
>> the ova structure?
>> 
>> Also, will these varying types of formats work with VM’s used by openstack.
>> Is there a conversion that occurs when a VM is started to the right format
>> (for say kvm? or for say xen? since I doubt either takes the ova format
>> directly...).
> 
> I'd like to ask Paul Voccio or Josh Kearney to answer the above
> question, since it's not something I'm too familiar with...
> 
> Paul, Josh?
> 
> Thanks,
> jay
> 
>> On 9/21/11 12:56 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I was wondering how these different types of formats supported by glance @
>>> http://glance.openstack.org/formats.html will be workable with
>>> nova-compute.
>> 
>> Just an FYI, Glance does not (currently) do any inspection to ensure
>> that what the user is registering in Glance is in fact the disk or
>> container format that the user says it is.
>> 
>>> It seems like most examples I see are using precreated ami/ari/aki images.
>>> I
>>> haven’t seen a lot of examples using say an iso, or a ovf container. Has
>>> anyone been successful with those when creating a vm?
>> 
>> XenServer supports OVF images, and I believe Rackspace teams have
>> tested with OVAs. You can see some basic discussion here:
>> 
>> http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServerDevelopment#Instance_Management
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> jay
>> 
>> 
> 
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