Introduction
Deploying virtual machine from OVA or OVF images has been one of the core features of the RESTful API. Now, you are able to upload any Open Virtualization Format archives in your personal space at https://vskeys-tor.eis.utoronto.ca and use it to deploy one or many virtual machines.
It is also possible to export an existent virtual machine (Virtual Machine - Attributes) to OVF and then use this OVF to deploy new ones.
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The following table shows a brief description and HTTP methods allowed to interact with Open Virtualization Format images:
| Resource | URI | Description | GET | POST | PUT | PATCH | OPTIONS |
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| Images | /image | OVF/OVA Virtual Machine images available from VSKEY-STOR. |  | |
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Remember, you can also show what methods are allowed and description, parameters, etc. by making an OPTIONS HTTP request to /v2/image.
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List
In order to list available OVA/OVF images you should make a GET request to the endpoint /v2/image passing your access token. As a result, you will get list of images available in your VSKEY-STOR space in form of JSON objects with the following attributes:
| Name | Type | Description |
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| name | string | OVA/OVF image file name |
| path | string | Personal space path |
The following examples implements HTTPie and CURL to list available OVA/OVF images:
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http -a $TK GET "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/image" curl -u $TK -X GET "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/image" |
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{
"_links": {
"api": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/",
"self": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/image"
},
"data": [
{
"name": "1605T-sick_stallman",
"path": "50124dc2-aba4-5c57-130c-da207557e5bd/1605T-sick_stallman.ovf"
},
{
"name": "coreos_production_vmware_ova",
"path": "coreos_production_vmware_ova.ova"
},
{
"name": "photon-custom-1.0-37d64ad-RC1",
"path": "photon-custom-1.0-37d64ad-RC1.ova"
},
{
"name": "photon-custom-1.0-a6f0f63-RC",
"path": "photon-custom-1.0-a6f0f63-RC.ova"
}
],
"meta": {
"count": 5,
"time": "0.25403s",
"user": "jm"
}
} |
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The attribute value you will use to deploy new virtual machines using an image is path. |