| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
|
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 |
|---|---|
| --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. |