Re: Publishing raw generic{,cloud} images without tar, and without compression, plus versionning of point releases

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:13:43AM +1200, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> That may be the case, but not all *backends* can use qcow2 images.

Can you please show OpenStack documentation detailing this all?  I fail
to find anything.  And if the documentation does not tell clearly, I
have to assume that formats supported by the frontend can be properly
converted in formats supported by the backend.

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> our public and private OpenStack clouds we only work with raw images.
> We have to convert all qcow2 images.

This reads to me like: "we disable qcow2 because we want to, so we need
to convert first".

Regards,
Bastian

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