Converting Between Image Formats Metacloud supports the following formats and the corresponding command arguments for use in the CLI. Image Format Command Argument QCOW2 (KVM, Xen) qcow2 QED (KVM) qed raw raw VDI (VirtualBox) vdi VHD (Hyper-V) vpc VMDK (VMware) vmdk Note If you use Ceph as your image repository storage (glance), QCOW2 images are no longer supported. You need to convert QCOW2 images to the RAW image file format. For a complete list of supported images per storage type, see.

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To convert from one image format to another, use the QEMU disk image utility. $ qemu-img convert -f -O The -f flag is optional. When omitted, qemu-img attempts to infer the image format. Note.

When converting an image file with Windows, the VirtIO driver must be installed. If it is not installed, you will see a blue screen when launching the image. An alternative to installing VirtIO is to set the image properties as shown below when you update the image in the Image service; however, this method reduces virtual machine performance significantly.

This tutorial shows you how to convert KVM qcow2 disk images to raw disk images. The qcow2 disk format has some decent features like encryption, compression and copy to write support. However, the compression and the copy processes make it quite a bit slower than raw disk images. Sometimes you want to convert the disk images so that the VM will perform better.

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Benchmark For me it has a performance boost.