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''Parent page: [[Cloud]]'' | ''Parent page: [[Cloud]]'' | ||
Images are files which contain the contents of a virtual disk. Often Images contain a base operating system used to create a volume or an ephemeral disk from which a virtual machine boots. An ephemeral disk is a virtual disk file which resides on the host (or hypervisor) where the virtual machine runs. Ephemeral disk files are destroyed when a VM is destroyed, in contrast to [[ | Images are files which contain the contents of a virtual disk. Often Images contain a base operating system used to create a volume or an ephemeral disk from which a virtual machine boots. An ephemeral disk is a virtual disk file which resides on the host (or hypervisor) where the virtual machine runs. Ephemeral disk files are destroyed when a VM is destroyed, in contrast to [[Working_with_volumes|volumes]]. Images are portable in that they can be downloaded from the cloud, used to create a virtual machine using virtual box or similar on your laptop, and uploaded to another cloud and used to create a new virtual machine. This is not the case with volumes or ephemeral disks. Images come in a variety of formats. Some commonly encountered formats are, raw, qcow2, vmdk, and vdi. | ||
If sharing your virtual machine images, be sure to remove sensitive information such as public/private keys, configuration files containing passwords, etc. If uploading an image created from a virtual box virtual machine to our clouds, it must have cloud-init installed and configured correctly (see openstack docs on [https://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/create-images-manually.html creating images manually] for more details). | If sharing your virtual machine images, be sure to remove sensitive information such as public/private keys, configuration files containing passwords, etc. If uploading an image created from a virtual box virtual machine to our clouds, it must have cloud-init installed and configured correctly (see openstack docs on [https://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/create-images-manually.html creating images manually] for more details). | ||
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==If booting from a volume== | ==If booting from a volume== | ||
see [[ | see [[Working_with_volumes#Creating_an_image_from_a_volume|Creating an Image from a Volume]] | ||
=Sharing an image with another project= | =Sharing an image with another project= | ||