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Horizon already has what you just described. You can load images into glance by providing a URI. It's the "Create Image" button on the Images table.

    - Gabriel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Waldon [mailto:bcwaldon at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 7:35 AM
> To: Gabriel Hurley
> Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Why Image upload functionality is not there in
> Horizon ?
> 
> Even being able to add images while providing an external location would be
> useful. You could depend on your user to put it in swift or s3 and just provide
> a uri that references it.
> 
> On Aug 9, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Gabriel Hurley wrote:
> 
> > Indeed, uploading large files with the Horizon webserver as an
> intermediate relay is a nasty business which we want to discourage. We are
> looking at ways to send files directly from the Horizon client-side UI to
> swift/glance for large file upload in the future.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> >    - Gabriel
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: openstack-
> bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com at lists.launchpad.net
> >> [mailto:openstack-
> >> bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com at lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of
> >> bounces+Jay
> >> Pipes
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:43 AM
> >> To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> >> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Why Image upload functionality is not there
> >> in Horizon ?
> >>
> >> On 08/09/2012 02:35 AM, Sajith Kariyawasam wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> After playing around with Openstack Mangement Console, Horizon, I
> >>> realize that the image upload functionality is not provided there.
> >>>
> >>> Is there any special reason for that? Is it because there are no
> >>> Rest services available at the moment? or else is it felt that
> >>> providing image upload via the UI is not practically important?
> >>
> >> Probably because sending 20G Windows image files through a web form
> >> interface isn't very efficient ;)
> >>
> >> It's also not something a "regular user" of Glance/Nova would do --
> >> and system administrators won't do it very often, and when they do,
> >> they'll use the glance CLI tool to do it.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> -jay
> >>
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