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Glance
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Glance is a project that defines services for discovering, registering,
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retrieving and storing virtual machine images. The discovery and registration
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responsibilities are handled by the `glance-registry` component while the
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retrieval and storage responsiblities are handled by the `glance-api`
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component.
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Quick Start
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If you'd like to run trunk, you can clone the git repo:
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git clone git@github.com:openstack/glance.git
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Install Glance by running::
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python setup.py build
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sudo python setup.py install
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By default, `glance-registry` will use a SQLite database. If you'd like to use
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MySQL, or make other adjustments, you can modify the glance.cnf file (see
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documentation for more details).
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Now that Glance is installed, you can start the service. The easiest way to
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do that is by using the `glance-control` utility which runs both the
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`glance-api` and `glance-registry` services::
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glance-control all start
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Once both services are running, you can now use the `glance-upload` tool to
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register new images in Glance.
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glance-upload --type=machine --kernel=1 --ramdisk=2 myimage.img "MyImage"
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With an image registered, you can now configure your IAAS provider to use
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Glance as its image service and begin spinning up instances from your
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newly registered images.
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