Glance image enables discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images. Creating a glance image provisions, creation of a container with the application qcow2 image. Glance image is used when you create a small or large flavor. Glance image provides the preinstalled application when the instance is launched.

To create glance image, perform the following steps:

  1. Log on to OpenStack GUI as admin user.

  2. On the navigation pane, click Project > Images.

  3. On top-right corner, click Create Image.

    Glance Image Screen

     
  4. In Create An Image screen:
    1. Specify the SBC image name in Name field.
    2. Enter a relevant description in Description field.
    3. Select Image File from Image Source drop-down menu.
    4. Click Browse and select the qcow2 image file. 
    5. Select QCOW2 - QEMU Emulator from Format drop-down menu. 

    6. Click Create Image.

      Creating an Image

      The glance image is created.

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