CentOS - Mar 2016 - CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw very unusual format

On 21 March 2016 at 11:51, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> 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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> Karanbir Singh
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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

On 22/03/16 01:06, Martinx - ????? wrote:
> On 21 March 2016 at 11:51, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>
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 )
>>
>>
>> --
>> Karanbir Singh
>> +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh
>> GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc
>>
>>
> 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.
We do publish a qcow2c, the always updated version ( updated each month
end ) is at :
http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2c

This is a symlink that points to the latest image. At the moment this is
:
http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-1602.qcow2c

There will be a 1603 by the end of this week


-- 
Karanbir Singh
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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.
>
> We do publish a qcow2c, the always updated version ( updated each month
> end ) is at :
> http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2c
>
> This is a symlink that points to the latest image. At the moment this is
> :
>
>
http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-1602.qcow2c
>
> There will be a 1603 by the end of this week
>
>
> --
> Karanbir Singh
> +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh
> GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing the symlink... I'll use it instead..
Cheers!