[one-users] Importing images to a new installation

[Sangram Rath]

Thanks Carlos.

We imported images and it kind of worked. Lots of manual work though.
This thread can be closed.


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Carlos Martín Sánchez <
cmartin at opennebula.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Sangram Rath <sangram.rath at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We will reinstall opennebula. We have images and templates. Is it
>> possible to save them and reimport into the new setup?
>>
>> Whats the correct process?
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Sangram Rath
>>
>
> We don't have a process to export/import resources.
>
> If you really need to, you can try to automate something with the
> ruby/java API:
>
> - OpenNebula will accept xml files as templates to create the new resources
> - For the templates you need to save the VMTEMPLATE/TEMPLATE element,
> adding the NAME to it.
> - For images, save the IMAGE/TEMPLATE, and add the NAME and the SOURCE.
> SOURCE points to the final destination inside the datastore, using it
> instead of PATH tells opennebula to skip the initial copy.
>
> But there are things that may go wrong. For example, templates will only
> work if they reference the Images by name, not by ID.
>
> Regards
> --
> Carlos Martín, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
> www.OpenNebula.org <http://www.opennebula.org/> | cmartin at opennebula.org
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>
>
>


-- 
Thanks,
Sangram K Rath
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