That will create a new volume. I need to download a image to an existing volume. I have achieved that by copying the image to cinder host and use qemu-img to write it to the volume. Thanks On 08/22/2014 02:42 AM, Ryan Lucio wrote: > Hi - > > From the command line, you can supply an image id along with the cinder create command to create a volume from a image storage in glance. > > eg, cinder create --image-id 25d00ddb-203a-4d50-93e3-103ab05bfbcd ...... > > Just be sure that your volume is big enough to hold the image! > > For more options, just type 'cinder help create'. > > --ryan > ________________________________________ > From: ZHOU TAO A <tao.a.zhou at alcatel-lucent.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:13 AM > To: openstack at lists.openstack.org > Subject: [Openstack] How to download image to volume > > Hi All, > > I know cinder has a subcommand upload-to-image, which can upload volume > to image service, while I want to do the opposite--download image to > volume without recreating the volume. anyone knows how to do that? > > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack