[Openstack] Help for a newbie: I am sure it is somewhere in the documentation ...

Lorin Hochstein lorin at nimbisservices.com
Wed Nov 13 16:00:07 UTC 2013


It gets saved to the OpenStack Image Service (glance), so you'll have to
look at the directory where glance keeps its images to find the file.


Lorin


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Rolph III, Don <rolphd at amgen.com> wrote:

>  Ok, that works perfectly!!
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> Thanks!
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> But, where does the image get saved????  I expected to see a new img file
> created and I can’t seem to find it.
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> Thanks for your patience!
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> *From:* Lorin Hochstein [mailto:lorin at nimbisservices.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:01 AM
> *To:* Rolph III, Don
> *Cc:* openstack at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Help for a newbie: I am sure it is somewhere
> in the documentation ...
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> Don:
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Rolph III, Don <rolphd at amgen.com> wrote:
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> I have a copy of devstack  up and running ad have been experimenting with
> it.
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> I would like to capture a checkpoint of the cirros image before I run my
> next experiment.
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> You create snapshot your running instance into a new image. You can then
> start a new instance from that image.
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> From the dashboard, see:
> http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/instance_snapshots.html
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> From the command line: "nova image-create":
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> usage: nova image-create [--poll] <server> <name>
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> Create a new image by taking a snapshot of a running server.
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> Positional arguments:
>   <server>  Name or ID of server.
>   <name>    Name of snapshot.
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> Optional arguments:
>   --poll    Blocks while instance snapshots so progress can be reported.
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>   Lorin
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-- 
Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com
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