On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
<berrange(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:42:28PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Wanted to get a discussion started, there has been a few requests
> lately for our ec2 images to be made available for general consumption.
> either for use in a different cloud provider to ec2, or for use at home
> with kvm or private cloud. often the requestors reference
>
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/10.10/release/ im all for making
> fedora easier to consume. I made a qcow2 format image for f17 that came
> in at 610M, i also tarred and xz compressed the f16 ec2 raw disk and
> that came in at 114M the raw disk images are 10G
Based on the size differential there between qcow2 + xz raw format,
I'm guessing you didn't turn on QCow2 compression ? I don't think
QCow2 would get near xz size, but I think it should hve done better
than 610 MB.
yes it does, I got 200MB qcow2 compressed image:
200M Feb 6 12:46 Fedora-16-ec2-20111101-x86_64-sda.qcow2
Alan