Bug 2168120

Summary:	[DDF] It would be helpful, if document states that somewhere that a normal qcow2 image can also be directly deployed as
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	Direct Docs Feedback <ddf-bot>
Component:	documentation	Assignee:	Irina <igallagh>
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Description Direct Docs Feedback 2023-02-08 08:40:20 UTC

It would be helpful, if document states that somewhere that a normal qcow2 image can also be directly deployed as a user image. I was facing challenges in generating Initrd and vmlinuz images and tried normal rhel qcow2 image and it worked.

Reported by: bmw_vibhor

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.2/html/bare_metal_provisioning/configuring-the-bare-metal-provisioning-service-after-deployment#annotations:e1716da7-a86b-4f9f-bcf2-9c3e76d2805e

Comment 1 Julia Kreger 2023-02-09 16:32:27 UTC

The customer is right, the docs referenced are talking about use of a partition image, and not a whole disk image. I think it is in large part as a hold-over as the RHEL qcow2 image in the past didn't work when the documentation was originally written.

I think we need to:
1) Highlight the instructions cover the generation of a "partition image
2) Indicate that deployment of whole disk qcow2 images is a possibility as well, if appropriately uploaded to glance. i.e. no kernel and no ramdisk file associated in the uploaded glance image.

Comment 6 Irina 2023-07-03 11:21:13 UTC

Updated content available on the Customer Portal:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/17.0/html/bare_metal_provisioning/assembly_configuring-the-bare-metal-provisioning-service-after-deployment#proc_creating-images-for-launching-bare-metal-instances_bare-metal-post-deployment

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.2/html/bare_metal_provisioning/assembly_configuring-the-bare-metal-provisioning-service-after-deployment#proc_creating-images-for-launching-bare-metal-instances_bare-metal-post-deployment