Euca2ools Guide / EC2-Compatible Commands |
Creates a Eucalyptus Machine Image (EMI) from an EBS-based instance.
euca-create-image instance_id -n, --name <name> [-b DEVICE=MAPPED] [--no-reboot] [-d, --description <description> ][-S, --secret-key <secret_key> ][-I <key_id>]
Option | Description | Required |
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instance_id | The instance ID to use to create the EMI. | Yes |
-n,--name name | The name of the new image. | Yes |
-d,--description description | The description of the new image. | No |
--no-reboot | Indicates that the instance should not be shut down before creating the image. Note: This may affect image integrity.
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No |
-b,--block-device-mapping | Block device mapping for the instance. This is passed in the form
of <devicename>=<blockdevice>, where:
devicename is the device name of the physical
device on the instance to map and blockdevice is
one of the following values:
|
No |
Option | Description |
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--show-empty-fields | Show empty fields as "(nil)". |
--region user@region | Region and/or user name to search when looking up config file data. Only valid for EC2 endpoints. |
-U,--url url | URL of the cloud service to connect to. For administrative commands, this should be <ip_address>:8773/services/Empyrean. |
-I,--access-key-id key_id | User's access key ID. |
-S,--secret-key secret_key | User's secret key. |
--security-token token | User's security token. |
--debug | Prints what the command sends to the server and what it receives from the server. Use when you're trying to debug Euca2ools. |
--debugger | Enable interactive debugger on error. |
-h,--help | Display the manual page for the command. |
--version | Display the version of this tool. |