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[Lei Zhang <zhang.lei.fly@xxxxxxxxx>]

I also have a question. What's the requirement for the image? I found
nothing int the doc.


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Benoit ML <ben42ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thank you ! nice :)
> I'm really impatient to test cinder with NetApp device (soon it will be).
>
> In the documentation :
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/boot-from-volume.html
> The process is quite painful   ...
>
> Regards,
>
> 2013/1/29 Avishay Traeger <AVISHAY@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Benoit,
> >
> > openstack-bounces+avishay=il.ibm.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on
> > 01/29/2013 10:56:33 AM:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have an openstack installation with 1 controller node, 1 network
> >> node and 2 compute node, configured with GRE tunnel for the network,
> >> and NFS backend for volumes.
> >>
> >> I'd like to create a bootable cinder volume from a glance image to
> >> have persistant disque for VMs, and tests live migration in this
> >> setup.
> >>
> >> But when I ask cinder to create a volume from a image, cinder report
> >> "not supported" ... And I have look into the code, it's seems to be
> >> supportend only with Ceph/Rados or Iscsi driver.
> >>
> >> So I have many questions :
> >> - Any plan to support it for other driver/setupe like :  NetAppIscsi
> >> (or netappNFS Driver) ; NFS driver   ?
> >
> > I have a patch submitted that will implement this for all iSCSI drivers:
> > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/19808/
> > I don't know about NetApp's plans for other drivers.
> >
> >> - Any simple way to create a bootable cinder volume from the
> >> controller node shell ?  (In the doc I must mount the volume on a VM
> >> ... create partition .. copy data and so on ; lots of manipulation..)
> >
> > I don't understand this question.
> >
> >> And of course, I have the same question for cinder snapshot.
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance !
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> --
> >> --
> >> Benoit
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Avishay
> >
>
>
>
> --
> --
> Benoit
>
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