glance should support the root-tar disk format

Bug #1569289 reported by James Page
6
This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Glance
New
Undecided
Unassigned
glance (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

'root-tar' (indicating a root filesystem in tar archive format) has been used for full system containers in OpenStack both under the libvirt/lxc driver and under the new lxd driver (nova-lxd package).

Users are working around the lack of 'root-tar' default support in glance by uploading images in this format as 'raw' (which is incorrect) or updating the list of supported disk formats using the glance-api configuration file to include 'root-tar'.

We should consider adding this to the list of defaults for supported disk formats.

Revision history for this message
James Page (james-page) wrote :

Other pertinent bug 1535900

description: updated
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package glance - 2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2

---------------
glance (2:12.0.0-0ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/add-root-tar-support.patch: Add support for
     root-tar images for backwards compatiblity for nova-lxd
     (LP: #1569289).

 -- Chuck Short <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:13:40 -0400

Changed in glance (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.