From 486f3c01eb5ceaa374d868ade19c288a72aadb55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gregory Haynes Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 23:18:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation of output formats for users A blurb on output formats is useful for our users. Change-Id: Iffa5036a84c1500ccb38cd3edb258ddbf5148a3e --- doc/source/user_guide/building_an_image.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/building_an_image.rst b/doc/source/user_guide/building_an_image.rst index 67533bda..d5ae8bde 100644 --- a/doc/source/user_guide/building_an_image.rst +++ b/doc/source/user_guide/building_an_image.rst @@ -40,3 +40,17 @@ Other elements modify our image in some way. The 'vm' element in our example above ensures that our image has a bootloader properly installed. This is only needed for certain use cases and certain output formats and therefore it is not performed by default. + +Output Formats +-------------- + +By default a qcow2 image is created by the disk-image-create command. Other +output formats may be specified using the `-t ` argument. Multiple +output formats can also be specified by comma separation. The supported output +formats are: + + * qcow2 + * tar + * vhd + * docker + * raw