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[Brian Waldon <bcwaldon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Even being able to add images while providing an external location would be useful. You could depend on your user to put it in swift or s3 and just provide a uri that references it.

On Aug 9, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Gabriel Hurley wrote:

> Indeed, uploading large files with the Horizon webserver as an intermediate relay is a nasty business which we want to discourage. We are looking at ways to send files directly from the Horizon client-side UI to swift/glance for large file upload in the future.
> 
> All the best,
> 
>    - Gabriel
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openstack-bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:openstack-
>> bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jay
>> Pipes
>> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:43 AM
>> To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] 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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