On 08/27/2014 02:09 PM, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/devel/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-20140826_02.qcow2 > ( ~ 922 MB) > > The qcow2 filesize looks unreasonably large compared to the xz > compressed version. Zero-filling and qcow2-compressing the image reduced > its size to ~350MB. adding in a dd bs=4096 if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/zeros thing... but how wildely accepted is the qcow2c format ? I recall feedback from people saying that those were causing issues in some places, and most folks just wanted qcow2 > cloud-init debug messages don't show up on the console and are also not > logged in /var/log/cloud-init.log. I don't claim I understand > cloud-init's logging crazyness but there's some unfortunate interaction > with systemd. I *think* the problem is that systemd swallows console > messages from legacy services and only writes them to the journal but > not the console. In fact, no output from any of the other legacy > services appear on the console which could help with debugging boot > issues. Setting "ForwardToConsole=yes" in /etc/systemd/journald.conf > 'fixes' the issues. will experiment. > Other than that: Ship it! Depending on how things go - I will move to signing the cloud-init rpms, releasing them, and then doing another build on Friday AM UTC. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc