Image resources

Downloading Pre-Built Images for OpenStack

This is a collection of various OpenStack-ready p_w_picpaths of different distributions and operating systems.

Importing Images into Glance

You can load an p_w_picpath from the command line with glance, eg:

glance p_w_picpath-create --name 'Fedora 19 x86_64' --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --is-public true \
--copy-from http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/fedora-19.x86_64.qcow2

... or go to the 'Images and Snapshots' tab in your OpenStack dashboard to add them via the gui.

See the glance documentation for more details about the glance command line tools.

Building Your Own Images


Alternatively, one can use diskp_w_picpath-builder, which is available in the RDO repository:

$ yum install diskp_w_picpath-builder
$ disk-p_w_picpath-create -a amd64 fedora vm -o fedora-p_w_picpath.qcow2

Note: using the vm element as shown above is currently required for EPEL. Otherwise, one may instead not specify the vm element and extract the kernel and ramdisk as documented here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal#Image_Requirements

The resulting p_w_picpath file can be imported into glance similar to any other p_w_picpath:

$ glance p_w_picpath-create --name F19-x86_64 --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --is-public True < fedora-p_w_picpath.qcow2