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Creating an Image Articles
An Image is a template for a disk. Images are stored in Brinkster Cloud Services in read-only format. Images may contain only the operating system for the virtual machine, or any required configuration of software that you want to have on the virtual machine.

Brinkster Cloud Services supports the following image file types:

  • qcow2
  • .raw
  • .ova
  • .img

  • .iso 
    If you are using an .iso file, you must create a disk from it and attach this to the required server. For information about how to create a disk, see the article on Creating a Disk. For information about how to attach a disk to a server, see the article on Managing a Server.

  • .vmdk

This image type can only be fetched from a URL.

 
To create an image:
  1. Show the resources page by clicking the Resources link in the top right hand corner of the screen.

  2. Click on the Images tab.


  3. On the Images widget, click the Create Image button.

    The Create Image dialog box is displayed. 
     
  4. Specify the following:
    • Name - The name of the Image.
    • VDC - The VDC in which to create the image.

    • Default Username - The user account that enables you to gain access to the image. This is a property of the image, as the user account already exists in the image. This user account will be the root user of all virtual machines created using the image. 

      Please check with your image provider for the default username.

    • Generate Password Flag - Generates a password for the default user. This requires scripts to have been configured within the image in order to work.
    • Product - The product to use to create the image.
    • From - Whether to retrieve the image from a local disk or server, or from a URL.
      • From Disk/Server options:
        • Source Server - The server on which the image is located.
      • From URL options:

        • URL - The URL at which the image is located.

        • Auth Username - The username required to retrieve the image, if any.
        • Auth Password - The password required to retrieve the image, if any.
        • Checksum - If you know the checksum of the image, enter it here. This helps to validate the image you download.
           
  5. Once these fields have been filled out appropriately, click the Save button. A job will be submitted to build the image. Creating from a local disk/server usually takes a few seconds, while downloading a remote image will depend on the size of the image and speed of the internet connection.

For information on automatically setting passwords, see the article on Metadata Service.