To add a virtual machine image to glance, use the glance image-create command. To modify image properties, use the glance image-update command. The image-create command requires that you specify a name for your image with the --name parameter, the disk format with the --disk-format parameter, and the container format with --container-format parameter. Pass in the file through standard input or by using the file command. For example: $ glance image-create --name myimage --disk-format=raw --container-format=bare < /path/to/file.img or $ glance image-create --name myimage --disk-format=raw --container-format=bare --file /path/to/file.img

You can associate metadata with an image using the --property key=value argument to glance image-create or glance image-update. For example: $ glance image-update img-uuid --property architecture=arm --property hypervisor_type=qemu If you set the following properties on an image, and the ImagePropertiesFilter scheduler filter is enabled, which is the default, the scheduler only considers compute hosts that satisfy these properties. architecture: The CPU architecture that must be supported by the hypervisor, such as, x86_64, arm, 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. Recognized values for the field architecture are:

Image metadata properties: architecture

Architecture	Description
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)

hypervisor_type The hypervisor type. Valid values are xen, qemu, kvm, lxc, uml, vmware, hyperv, and powervm. vm_mode The virtual machine mode. This represents the host/guest application binary interface (ABI ) used for the virtual machine. Valid values are: hvm Fully virtualized. Used by QEMU and KVM. xen Xen 3.0 paravirtualized. uml User Mode Linux paravirtualized. exe Executables in containers. Used by LXC. The following metadata properties are specific to the XenAPI driver: auto_disk_config A boolean option. 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 tries to resize a single partition in ext3 or ext4 format is on the image. os_type The operating system installed on the image, such as, linux, windows. The XenAPI driver logic depends on the value of the os_type parameter for the image. For example, for images where os_type=windows, the XenAPI driver creates a FAT32-based swap partition instead of a Linux swap partition, and it limits the injected host name to less than 16 characters. The following metadata properties are specific to the VMware API driver: vmware_adaptertype The virtual SCSI or IDE controller used by the hypervisor. Valid values are lsiLogic, busLogic, and ide. vmware_ostype A VMware GuestID that describes the operating system that is installed in the image. This value is passed to the hypervisor when you create a virtual machine. See thinkvirt.com for a list of valid values. If you do not specify this parameter, it defaults to otherGuest. vmware_image_version Currently unused. Set it to 1. To help end users use images, you might add common metadata to images. By community agreement, you can add the following metadata keys to images: instance_uuid For snapshot images, the UUID of the server used to create this image. kernel_id The ID of image stored in Glance that should be used as the kernel when booting an AMI-style image. ramdisk_id The ID of image stored in Glance that should be used as the ramdisk when booting an AMI-style image. os_version The operating system version as specified by the distributor. os_distro The value of this property is the common name of the operating system distribution in all-lowercase. For this purpose, we use the same data vocabulary as the libosinfo project. The following values are the recognized values for this parameter. In the interest of interoperability, please use only a recognized value for this field. The deprecated values are listed to assist you in searching for the recognized value. Valid values are: arch This is: Arch Linux Do not use: archlinux, or org.archlinux centos This is: Community Enterprise Operating System Do not use: org.centos CentOS debian This is: Debian Do not use: Debian, or org.debian fedora This is: Fedora Do not use: Fedora, org.fedora, or org.fedoraproject freebsd This is: FreeBSD Do not use: org.freebsd, freeBSD, or FreeBSD gentoo This is: Gentoo Linux Do not use: Gentoo, or org.gentoo mandrake This is: Mandrakelinux (MandrakeSoft) Do not use: mandrakelinux, or MandrakeLinux mandriva This is: Mandriva Linux Do not use: mandrivalinux mes This is: Mandriva Enterprise Server Do not use: mandrivaent, or mandrivaES msdos This is: Microsoft Disc Operating System Do not use: ms-dos netbsd This is: NetBSD Do not use: NetBSD, or org.netbsd netware This is: Novell NetWare Do not use: novell, or NetWare openbsd This is: OpenBSD Do not use: OpenBSD, or org.openbsd opensolaris Do not use: OpenSolaris,or org.opensolaris opensuse This is: openSUSE Do not use: suse, SuSE, or org.opensuse rhel This is: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Do not use: redhat, RedHat, or com.redhat sled This is: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Do not use: com.suse ubuntu This is: Ubuntu Do not use: Ubuntu, com.ubuntu, org.ubuntu, or canonical windows This is: Microsoft Windows Do not use: com.microsoft.server, or windoze