[one-users] econe-upload to file datastore

[Daniel Molina]

On 19 August 2013 12:27, Steffen Claus <steffen.claus at scai.fraunhofer.de>wrote:

> Am 16.08.2013 19:06, schrieb Daniel Molina:
>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> On 16 August 2013 10:39, Steffen Claus <steffen.claus at scai.**
>> fraunhofer.de <steffen.claus at scai.fraunhofer.de>
>> <mailto:steffen.claus at scai.**fraunhofer.de<steffen.claus at scai.fraunhofer.de>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>     i went through the code and found the following lines in the
>>     EC2QueryServer.rb:
>>
>>     def upload_image(params)
>>         image = ImageEC2.new(Image.build_xml,
>>                             @client,
>>                             params['file'],
>>                            {:type => "OS"})
>>
>>     This renders it impossible to upload files to a file datastore.
>>
>>     What would be the best way to handle this situation? Additional
>>     parameters for the upload_image method, even though AWS doesn't
>>     distingush between image types? Or one could check the TYPE of the
>>     datastore to define allowed IMAGE types for upload, e.g.:
>>     type == "image" --> allowed: OS, CDROM, DATABLOCK
>>     type == "file" --> allowed: KERNEL, RAMDISK, CONTEXT.
>>
>>     What do you think?
>>
>>
>> econe-upload is a nonofficial EC2 api call, it's just a helper to upload
>> image to OpenNebula. So, you can add a new param type to the request an
>> use it when creating the new image.
>>
> I know that econe is not supposed to support the whole range of EC2
> functionalities. So you suggest I should change the server code?
>
> Yes


>
>> BTW, how are you going to use this files through EC2?
>>
> They are pre-configured to be used within VM templates. I just need an
> automatic way of uploading them from outside the Cloud infrastructure.
>

BTW, you can upload any kind of file through Sunstone.

Cheers

>
>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>>
>>     BR,
>>     Steffen
>>
>>
>>     ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
>>      > Hi,
>>      > i am trying to upload a file via econe-upload to my file datastore.
>>      > However, i keep getting the following error:
>>      >
>>      > "econe-upload:
>>      >
>>     <Response><RequestId/><Errors>**<Error><Code>**
>> UnsupportedOperation</Code><**Message>[ImageAllocate]
>>      > Error allocating a new image. Only IMAGES of type KERNEL, RAMDISK
>>      > and CONTEXT can be registered in a FILE_DS
>>      > datastore</Message></Error></**Errors></Response>".
>>      >
>>      > Is the current implementation of econe-upload incapable of handling
>>      > file datastores? Where can i change the image type?
>>      >
>>      > Is there another way of uploading files via command-line/API? I
>>      > haven't succeded with ec2-tools (ec2-import-volume) as well. What
>>      > about OCCI?
>>      >
>>      > BR,
>>      > Steffen
>>      >
>>      >
>>      >
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