[CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.raw very unusual format
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.orgTue Oct 11 21:22:32 UTC 2016
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On 11/10/16 13:16, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: >> >> 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. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc
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