Creating Glance Image

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.