Before we go over the commands for adding an image to Glance, it is important to understand that Glance does not currently inspect the image files you add to it. In other words, Glance only understands what you tell it, via attributes and custom properties.

If the file extension of the file you upload to Glance ends in '.vhd', Glance does not know that the image you are uploading has a disk format of vhd. You have to tell Glance that the image you are uploading has a disk format by using the disk_format=vhd on the command line (see more below).

By the same token, Glance does not currently allow you to upload "multi-part" disk images at once. The common operation of bundling a kernel image and ramdisk image into a machine image is not done automagically by Glance.



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