Activity log for bug #1569289

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2016-04-12 11:08:03 James Page bug added bug
2016-04-12 11:08:14 James Page description 'root-tar' (indicating a root filesystem in tar archive format) as 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. '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.
2016-04-12 11:08:55 James Page 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. '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.
2016-04-12 11:21:33 James Page bug task added glance
2016-04-13 21:31:31 Launchpad Janitor glance (Ubuntu): status New Fix Released