Hi BK, Are you referring to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-281 ?
As a matter of fact, I am implementing the functionality this week. HTH! /jd From: Bk Lau <bklau2...@gmail.com<mailto:bklau2...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@jclouds.apache.org<mailto:user@jclouds.apache.org>" <user@jclouds.apache.org<mailto:user@jclouds.apache.org>> Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 1:06 PM To: "user@jclouds.apache.org<mailto:user@jclouds.apache.org>" <user@jclouds.apache.org<mailto:user@jclouds.apache.org>> Subject: Support for booting instance from volume Hi : Does anyone know if Nova compute API support for "boot from volume"[1] exists yet for jcloud1.8.x? Thanks, BK [1] To create a bootable volume from an image and launch an instance from this volume, use the --block-device parameter. For example: $ nova boot --flavor FLAVOR --block-device source=SOURCE,id=ID,dest=DEST,size=SIZE,shutdown=PRESERVE,bootindex=INDEX NAME http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/create_volume_from_image_and_boot.html