[Openstack] Download a specific image from Glance to local hard drive

Narayanan, Krishnaprasad narayana at uni-mainz.de
Thu Jun 20 13:19:57 UTC 2013


Hi Balu,

Thanks for the explanation. 

Cheers,
Krishnaprasad

-----Original Message-----
From: Balamurugan V G [mailto:balamuruganvg at gmail.com] 
Sent: Donnerstag, 20. Juni 2013 15:08
To: Narayanan, Krishnaprasad
Cc: Sylvain Bauza; openstack at lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Download a specific image from Glance to local hard drive

Those are your complete/actual image files. They are named by the UUIDs they use. You can copy these and rename to appropriate name with the suitable extension, .img or .qcow2 etc depending on what format they actually are.

Regards,
Balu

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Narayanan, Krishnaprasad <narayana at uni-mainz.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I get it correctly, the folder /var/lib/glance/images has only the UUID inside it. Where will I able to see the complete image (.img or .tar.gz)?
>
> Thanks
> Krishnaprasad
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sylvain Bauza [mailto:sylvain.bauza at digimind.com]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 20. Juni 2013 12:53
> To: Michael Still
> Cc: Narayanan, Krishnaprasad; openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Download a specific image from Glance to 
> local hard drive
>
> Hi,
>
> While I was working on Essex, I was simply looking at the image UUID and copying it from /var/lib/glance/images, that's it.
>
> I was not aware of glance image-download, which is great (same command for all Glance backends).
>
> -Sylvain
>
> Le 20/06/2013 11:53, Michael Still a écrit :
>> I'm not sure. Essex is very old now. Try running "glance help" and 
>> see what happens?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Narayanan, Krishnaprasad 
>> <narayana at uni-mainz.de> wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> Is this command valid in OpenStack ESSEX?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Krishnaprasad
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mikalstill at gmail.com [mailto:mikalstill at gmail.com] On Behalf 
>>> Of Michael Still
>>> Sent: Donnerstag, 20. Juni 2013 11:46
>>> To: Narayanan, Krishnaprasad
>>> Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Download a specific image from Glance to 
>>> local hard drive
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Narayanan, Krishnaprasad <narayana at uni-mainz.de> wrote:
>>>> Hallo All,
>>>>
>>>> I am using OpenStack ESSEX and want to download an image from 
>>>> glance to my local hard drive. Can I get to know any commands in 
>>>> glance (in
>>>> ESSEX) using which I can perform this operation?
>>> Take a look at the image-download command to the glance command line client.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Michael
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