Thanks to you both for the answers, I think I will try with the ex_ function and see if that works.
2011/5/28 Tomaž Muraus <to...@apache.org>: > 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 >> > -- Martín http://www.kyheo.com.ar / http://blog.kyheo.com.ar GTalk: marr...@gmail.com
