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

[Martinx - ジェームズ]

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