Tuesday, January 10, 2012

How to register an image in openstack

After having installed and configured the worker and controller nodes of the openstack testbed we would like to upload images into it.

First I downloaded some images to /root/images on controller node. One is from Xin and another one is a minimal image for testing I got from the net. I have no idea what are they worth.


Then I tried to follow the instructions

http://docs.openstack.org/cactus/openstack-compute/admin/content/part-ii-getting-virtual-machines.html

which go like this:

image="ubuntu1010-UEC-localuser-image.tar.gz"
wget http://c0179148.cdn1.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/ubuntu1010-UEC-localuser-image.tar.gz
uec-publish-tarball $image [bucket-name] [hardware-arch]


and I could not find where does the
uec-publish-tarball

command comes from. Finally I realized that it comes from Ubuntu and the manual became Ubuntu specific without saying it explicitly.


So I tried different approach.

cd /root/images

glance add name="My Image" < sl61-kvm.tar.bz2 # the image I got from Xin

The command responded that the image got Id=1, which is a good sign.

Then I did:

glance show 1

and got:

URI: http://0.0.0.0/images/1
Id: 1
Public: No
Name: My Image
Size: 199737477
Location: file:///var/lib/glance/images/1
Disk format: raw
Container format: ovf

Which suggests that the file is in the system. But when I tried:

glance index

it said:

no public images found

So I tried to register it again:

glance add name="My Image" is_public=true < sl61-kvm.tar.bz2
Added new image with ID: 2

I tried to list:

glance index
Found 1 public images...
ID Name Disk Format Container Format Size
---------------- ------------------------------ -------------------- -------------------- --------------
2 My Image raw ovf 199737477

So it seems we have uploaded an image to the system.


Now I have to figure out how to run it.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for this nice tutorial. The problem is that when i try to follow these steps it asks for credentials (not only a user and password BUT ALSO other sophistecated things like TENANT_ID etc. OPENSTACK IS PAIN IN THE ASS

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