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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sebastien, you are correct.

Udit, you will need to provide a bit more information on what you are 
looking to do with Swift.

Thanks,
-jay

p.s. sorry for top-posting.

On 06/12/2012 08:02 AM, Sébastien Han wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you planned to use Swift to store the virtual images disk and run
> instance over Swift: it's not possible.
> If you planned to use swift for nova-volume (cinder) and attaching disk:
> it's also not possible.
>
> Swift is *NOT*:
>
>   * a filesystem
>   * a block device
>
> Perhaps, Swift can be use as a backend for Glance and of course object
> storage like S3.
>
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Udit Agarwal <fzdudit@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:fzdudit@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,____
>
>        I have setup nova compute and storage on different nodes. I want
>     to create new virtual machine images on my nova compute node. I also
>     want to configure these virtual machines to use swift(openstack
>     storage that is setup on a different node) for their storage
>     purposes. But I have no idea how to do this? Can anyone help me in
>     this matter.____
>
>     __ __
>
>        Thanks in advance.
>
>     ____
>
>     __ __
>
>     --Udit Agarwal ____
>
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