Upload raw storage images

[toastbrotch]

i'd love to upload my existing kvm-raw vm-images directly as storage into gridscale. best way might be via gscloud instead of webinterface. this would simplify migration of existing vms massively.

thanx and cheers.ivo

[bkircher]

Hello Hello. Good idea.

POST api.gridscale.io/objects/isoimages allows creating a new image by giving a URL. As long as the image is publicly accessible this should be easy.

So we could possibly allow something like this very quickly

gscloud iso-image create \
 --url=https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso \
 --name "Debian 10.7"

Is this something that would help you?

[toastbrotch]

Hi
your proposal is also very useful, but i thought something else: i run some kvm/proxmox/libvirt machines with a bunch of vms. now i want to migrate that vms to gridscale. as they are already raw-images, it should be possible to upload them directly as a new storage inside gridscale.

now i have to follew more or less this https://gridscale.io/community/tutorials/vmdk-nach-gridscale-migrieren/: setting up first a server inside gridscale with enough storage, ssh the raw-image there, and then copy the image to new target-storage, tear down that converter-vm and -storage...

gscloud storage upload /some/local/path/kvm-image.raw --storagetype=foo --name=bar ...

this could simplify that process massively.

[bkircher]

Ah, I actually understand now. Sorry, that took a while 😄

Yes that's a good point really. Agree, doing this manually is really cumbersome. Unfortunately at the moment gridscale public APIs won't allow us to do that.

I could imagine that an API that would implement such a feature might also use object storage for that. So you might want to upload the raw image to s3 and then would do something like

gscloud storage import https://your-bucket.gos3.io/image.raw --name=bar

I think even finding out the kind storage can be automated (Windows OS, what kind of filesystem, etc.) this way.