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....@lists.launchpad.net >> [mailto:openstack- >> bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula....@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Jay >> Pipes >> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:43 AM >> To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp