]> Image Service property keys The following keys, together with the components to which they are specific, can be used with the option for both the glance image-update and glance image-create commands. For example: $ glance image-update img-uuid --property architecture=x86_64
Property keys
Specific to Key Description Supported values
All architecture The CPU architecture that must be supported by the hypervisor. For example, x86_64, arm, or ppc64. Run uname -m to get the architecture of a machine. We strongly recommend using the architecture data vocabulary defined by the libosinfo project for this purpose. alpha — DEC 64-bit RISC armv7l — ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore cris — Ethernet, Token Ring, AXis — Code Reduced Instruction Set i686 — Intel sixth-generation x86 (P6 micro architecture) ia64 — Itanium lm32 — Lattice Micro32 m68k — Motorola 68000 microblaze — Xilinx 32-bit FPGA (Big Endian) microblazeel — Xilinx 32-bit FPGA (Little Endian) mips — MIPS 32-bit RISC (Big Endian) mipsel — MIPS 32-bit RISC (Little Endian) mips64 — MIPS 64-bit RISC (Big Endian) mips64el — MIPS 64-bit RISC (Little Endian) openrisc — OpenCores RISC parisc — HP Precision Architecture RISC parisc64 — HP Precision Architecture 64-bit RISC ppc — PowerPC 32-bit ppc64 — PowerPC 64-bit ppcemb — PowerPC (Embedded 32-bit) s390 — IBM Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 s390x — S/390 64-bit sh4 — SuperH SH-4 (Little Endian) sh4eb — SuperH SH-4 (Big Endian) sparc — Scalable Processor Architecture, 32-bit sparc64 — Scalable Processor Architecture, 64-bit unicore32 — Microprocessor Research and Development Center RISC Unicore32 x86_64 — 64-bit extension of IA-32 xtensa — Tensilica Xtensa configurable microprocessor core xtensaeb — Tensilica Xtensa configurable microprocessor core (Big Endian)
All hypervisor_type The hypervisor type. xen, qemu, kvm, lxc, uml, vmware, or hyperv
All instance_uuid For snapshot images, this is the UUID of the server used to create this image. Valid server UUID
All kernel_id The ID of an image stored in the Image Service that should be used as the kernel when booting an AMI-style image. Valid image ID
All os_distro The common name of the operating system distribution in lowercase (uses the same data vocabulary as the libosinfo project). Specify only a recognized value for this field. Deprecated values are listed to assist you in searching for the recognized value. arch — Arch Linux. Do not use archlinux or org.archlinux centos — Community Enterprise Operating System. Do not use org.centos or CentOS debian — Debian. Do not use Debian or org.debian fedora — Fedora. Do not use Fedora, org.fedora, or org.fedoraproject freebsd — FreeBSD. Do not use org.freebsd, freeBSD, or FreeBSD gentoo — Gentoo Linux. Do not use Gentoo or org.gentoo mandrake — Mandrakelinux (MandrakeSoft) distribution. Do not use mandrakelinux or MandrakeLinux mandriva — Mandriva Linux. Do not use mandrivalinux mes — Mandriva Enterprise Server. Do not use mandrivaent or mandrivaES msdos — Microsoft Disc Operating System. Do not use ms-dos netbsd — NetBSD. Do not use NetBSD or org.netbsd netware — Novell NetWare. Do not use novell or NetWare openbsd — OpenBSD. Do not use OpenBSD or org.openbsd opensolaris — OpenSolaris. Do not use OpenSolaris or org.opensolaris opensuse — openSUSE. Do not use suse, SuSE, or org.opensuse rhel — Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Do not use redhat, RedHat, or com.redhat sled — SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. Do not use com.suse ubuntu — Ubuntu. Do not use Ubuntu, com.ubuntu, org.ubuntu, or canonical windows — Microsoft Windows. Do not use com.microsoft.server or windoze
All os_version The operating system version as specified by the distributor. Version number (for example, "11.10")
All ramdisk_id The ID of image stored in the Image Service that should be used as the ramdisk when booting an AMI-style image. Valid image ID
All vm_mode The virtual machine mode. This represents the host/guest ABI (application binary interface) used for the virtual machine. hvm — Fully virtualized. This is the mode used by QEMU and KVM. xen — Xen 3.0 paravirtualized. uml — User Mode Linux paravirtualized. exe — Executables in containers. This is the mode used by LXC.
libvirt API driver hw_video_model The video image driver used. vga, cirrus, vmvga, xen, or qxl
VMware API driver vmware_adaptertype The virtual SCSI or IDE controller used by the hypervisor. lsiLogic, busLogic, or ide
VMware API driver vmware_ostype A VMware GuestID which describes the operating system installed in the image. This value is passed to the hypervisor when creating a virtual machine. If not specified, the key defaults to otherGuest. See thinkvirt.com.
VMware API driver vmware_image_version Currently unused. 1
XenAPI driver auto_disk_config If true, the root partition on the disk is automatically resized before the instance boots. This value is only taken into account by the Compute service when using a Xen-based hypervisor with the XenAPI driver. The Compute service will only attempt to resize if there is a single partition on the image, and only if the partition is in ext3 or ext4 format. true | false
XenAPI driver os_type The operating system installed on the image. The XenAPI driver contains logic that takes different actions depending on the value of the os_type parameter of the image. For example, for os_type=windows images, it creates a FAT32-based swap partition instead of a Linux swap partition, and it limits the injected host name to less than 16 characters. linux or windows