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Re: Why Image upload functionality is not there in Horizon ?

 

On 08/09/2012 02:35 AM, Sajith Kariyawasam wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> After playing around with Openstack Mangement Console, Horizon, I
> realize that the image upload functionality is not provided there. 
> 
> Is there any special reason for that? Is it because there are no Rest
> services available at the moment? or else is it felt that providing
> image upload via the UI is not practically important?

Probably because sending 20G Windows image files through a web form
interface isn't very efficient ;)

It's also not something a "regular user" of Glance/Nova would do -- and
system administrators won't do it very often, and when they do, they'll
use the glance CLI tool to do it.

Best,
-jay


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