[Openstack] Creating a VM with glance image-create versus openstack image create

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Sep 7 19:47:14 UTC 2016


On 9/3/2016 7:04 PM, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
> I saw that one can create a VM with "openstack image create" but also with
> "glance image-create",
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/python-glanceclient/man/glance.html
>
> I saw that some of the parameters are common.
>
> My question is: is there any difference between these two command line utils ?
> Are the generated VMs equivalent in term of functionalities and behaviors ?
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
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Just a note, 'openstack image create' and 'glance image-create' create 
images, not VMs. Not to be confused with 'nova image-create' which 
creates a snapshot image of a VM.

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann





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