Hi, I don't think this is possible. Importing an image to glance is not just having an image path but also creating a UUID, adding metadata, don't know what else there is involved. I'm not a dev, maybe it would be possible without too much effort, but someone with more glance experience should comment on that. I just noticed that nobody had responded in a week. Regards, Eugen Zitat von Rob Jefferson <techstep@gmail.com>:
Folks,
I'm trying to wrap my brain around whether this is possible.
Suppose I've configured Glance to use a filesystem backend. Would I be able to point Glance at a directory of existing images, and have it import the images into OpenStack (thus populating the database) without having to copy them? It seems fairly redundant to have the images on the filesystem, and to make copies as part of the creation process.
Looking around in the documentation, it seems that this may not be possible, but I'm not sure if there's an alternate path or if what I'm asking is ill-posed.
Any advice would be useful.
Thanks,
Rob