Glance.md

OpenStack (Grizzly) - Glance Management Instructions

Creating and Uploading VMs to Glance

The execution of the glance commands require you to be on a system that have the python-glance package installed

Hyper-V (VHDs)

Navigate to the folder where your VMs are located and execute the following commands:

1. $ cp your_vm_image.vhd image.vhd
2. $ tar -czf image.vhd.gz image.vhd
3. Import the VHD into Glance:
   • Windows Base VM
     • $ glance add name=“My VHD image” is_public=True disk_format=vhd container_format=ovf vm_mode=hvm image_state=available architecture=x86_64 < image.vhd.gz
   • Linux VM
     • $ glance add name=“My VHD image” is_public=True disk_format=vhd container_format=ovf vm_mode=xen image_state=available architecture=x86_64 < image.vhd.gz
4. $ glance image-list