On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis(a)ausil.us> 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
so the main question here is whats the best way to make them available
that can easily be consumed by people.
Dennis
Hi Dennis:
So qcow2 works well for KVM - but perhaps providing just a raw image
and allowing folks to use qemu-img or whatever suits their fancy to
work. Of course, if we really want to do all of the work, we should
build raw, qcow2, vmdk, and vhd in addition to the EC2 AMIs.
And to your main question - why wouldn't they be downloadable from the mirrors?