Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw very unusual format

On 11/10/16 13:16, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote:

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did you look in the directory to see what is there?

http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/

Kind of, there is a CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw.tar.gz ( compare with CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw.xz )

But again link is not good, and why put raw disk inside the tar?

This is how OracleCloud works, they are unable to consume a raw file directly. I agree, its a bit odd.

It would me more natural to have compressed image so one can do {z,bz,xc}cat cloud.raw.xz > /dev/lvm/vm-disk for example.

for the sake of size, lots of people prefer to download the qcow2c image ( note the compressed flag ), and qemu-img convert on their own end. Is that an option for your usecase ?

Official wiki link is broken regardless.

will try and get that fixed.