Yeah, like Sengor has said, this functionality is only supported by few providers.
Rackspace is one of them and yes, ex_save_image() method should make a snapshop of your node. I am not 100%, but I think after you save the image this image should show up the next time you call list_images() so you can use it to create new servers based on this image. Another approach would be to create an EC2 AMI with your setup end use this image when creating a new server. Problem with this method is that IIRC you would need to create AMI manually. On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Sengor <seng...@gmail.com> wrote: > Capturing instance images is at the moment only provider driver > specific as far as I can tell. Any ex_* functions would be exposing > built in provider specific functionality likely not to be found > amongst other drivers. As you can imagine certain OS instances have > provider specific pre-requisites (eg. OS needs to be shutdown before > capture and so on) that'd be another thing to look out for. > > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 5:46 AM, marr...@gmail.com <marr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I starting to use libcloud to manage our development stress test > > environment, and one of the first things I need to do is save the > > current servers images (I'll restore them in the future). > > I looked around the doc and the code and seems that there is no way to > > create an image from a running server ... is that right? ... > > > > In the code, I found in compute/drivers/rackspace.py a method called > > RackspaceNodeDriver.ex_save_image ... but dunno know if that could do > > what I need. > > > > Thanks, > > -- > > Martín > > > > http://www.kyheo.com.ar / http://blog.kyheo.com.ar > > GTalk: marr...@gmail.com > > > > > > -- > sengork >
