Publishing and snapshoting Virtual Machine Images

[Kenneth Nagin]

I want to publish a new Virtual Machine Image (VMI) that I created
locally using jcloud. I then want to reference the image to
instantiate new nodes.

I also want to install new application packages on a running node and
then create a snapshot of the image from which I can create other
running nodes.

The jcloud examples that I found use existing images to instantiate
running nodes so what I want to do is slightly different..

Could someone provide some sample code to do these two task?

Best Regards,

Kenneth Nagin

[Andrew Phillips]

Hi Kenneth

> I want to publish a new Virtual Machine Image (VMI) that I created
> locally using jcloud. I then want to reference the image to
> instantiate new nodes.
>
> I also want to install new application packages on a running node and
> then create a snapshot of the image from which I can create other
> running nodes.

I may be missing something obvious here, but...which provider are you
using? ;-)

Thanks!

ap

[Kenneth Nagin]

I am using Amazon.

[Andrew Phillips]

> I am using Amazon.

Ah, thanks. When you talk about "snapshots" I assume you mean
snapshots of an EBS volume [1], rather than the image itself? You
should be able to do that using the services provided by the
ElasticBlockStoreAsyncClient [2], from where you can also attach the
volume to a specific instance.

The EC2TemplateOptions [3] also allow you to map EBS snapshots to
devices, amongst others. A usage sample would look like [4]

template.getOptions().as(EC2TemplateOptions.class).mapEBSSnapshotToDeviceName(deviceName, snapshotId, sizeInGib,
deleteOnTermination)

Hope this helps!

ap

[1]
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/ApiReference-cmd-CreateSnapshot.html
[2]
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/apis/ec2/src/main/java/org/jclouds/ec2/services/ElasticBlockStoreAsyncClient.java
[3]
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/apis/ec2/src/main/java/org/jclouds/ec2/compute/options/EC2TemplateOptions.java
[4] http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/wiki/EC2#Default_image

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[Kenneth Nagin]

Thanks for your response, but I still have more questions.

I think I am not explaining myself properly. My objective is to be
able to publish virtual machine images.
Publishing a virtual machine image means uploading the image to the
cloud provider and registering it
so that other users can create nodes from the image.
I want to be able to create the virtual machine images from scratch
using tools like vmbuilder or
customize running instances, i.e. nodes, and then publish them.

I think I am looking for the jcloud equivalent to EC2's
ec2-bundle-image
ec2-bundle-vol
ec2-upload-bundle
ec2-register

But since the primary reason that I want use jcloud is for portability
I would like a generic interface that would allow me to do the above,
but be able to publish virtual machine images to other cloud
providers, e.g. rackspace.

thanks in advance

Kenneth Nagin

On Jun 24, 2:00 am, Andrew Phillips <aphill...@qrmedia.com> wrote:
> > I am using Amazon.
>
> Ah, thanks. When you talk about "snapshots" I assume you mean  
> snapshots of an EBS volume [1], rather than the image itself? You  
> should be able to do that using the services provided by the  
> ElasticBlockStoreAsyncClient [2], from where you can also attach the  
> volume to a specific instance.
>
> The EC2TemplateOptions [3] also allow you to map EBS snapshots to  
> devices, amongst others. A usage sample would look like [4]
>
> template.getOptions().as(EC2TemplateOptions.class).mapEBSSnapshotToDeviceName(deviceName, snapshotId, sizeInGib,  
> deleteOnTermination)
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> ap
>

> [1]  http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference/...
> [2]  https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/apis/ec2/src/main/java...
> [3]  https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/apis/ec2/src/main/java...

[Eugen Paraschiv]

I would also be interested in this exact functionality, as for now I had to do the upload of the VM image by hand.
Thanks.
Eugen.

[Adrian Cole]

Hi, guys.

This is a pretty common request, and we have an old issue on this.
Please add comments relating to which providers and overview
functionality you'd like to see, even better if some context for what
you're interested in the feature for.

http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/issues/detail?id=155

Regardless, it will probably be a good idea to move this thread to
jclouds-dev, as this isn't a current feature. If you are interested
in collaborating, let's pick-up there!

-Adrian

[Naveen Doraiswamy]

Hi,

 

Is there any plan for releasing jcloud APIs for the following EC2 functionality:

 

> > ec2-bundle-image
> > ec2-bundle-vol
> > ec2-upload-bundle
> > ec2-register

 

In addition, to the above, how about an API for ec2-import-instance?

 

Thanks,

-Naveen