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==Creating an Image From a Volume== | ==Creating an Image From a Volume== | ||
Creating an image from a volume allows you to download the image. | Creating an image from a volume allows you to download the image. Do this if you want to save it as a backup, or to spin up a VM somewhere other than the CC Cloud, e.g. with [https://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox]. | ||
Use the [[OpenStack Command Line Clients|command line client]] to do this: | |||
{{Command|openstack image create --disk-format <format> --volume <volume_name> <image_name>}} | {{Command|openstack image create --disk-format <format> --volume <volume_name> <image_name>}} | ||
where <volume_name> can be found from the OpenStack | where | ||
* <format> is the disk format (two possible values are qcow2 and vmdk), | |||
* <volume_name> can be found from the OpenStack dashboard by clicking on the volume name, and | |||
* <image_name> is a name you choose for the image. | |||
You can then download the image as described in [[OpenStack#Downloading an image into a local VirtualBox | Downloading an image into a local VirtualBox]]. | |||
=Accessing a VM with Multiple Users= | =Accessing a VM with Multiple Users= | ||