> The Horizon team is looking at adding a first-pass implementation of > image upload before the Essex release, and we'd really like to > bypass the problems associated with, say, passing a 700MB Ubuntu > image through the user's browser to a web server and then across to > Glance... > > So the question is this: is there a way to add an image to Glance via > the API *without* passing the image data in via the POST body? > Options might include specifying a Swift object for the image, or a > download URL...
Hi Gabriel, Check out the X-Image-Meta-Location header which allows a pre-existing HTTP, S3, Swift or 'file://' image location to be specified. The result is that the image content is not uploaded to glance, instead the external location is relied upon. Cheers, Eoghan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
