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
Images	/image	OVF/OVA Virtual Machine images available from VSKEY-STOR.

OPTIONS HTTP method

Remember, you can also show what methods are allowed and description, parameters, etc. by making an OPTIONS HTTP request to /v2/image.

http OPTIONS "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/image"
curl -X OPTIONS "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/image"

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
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:

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"

Response Body

{
    "_links": {
        "api": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/",
        "self": "https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca:8001/v2/image"
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "name": "1608T-stoic_carson.ovf",
            "path": "5012689b-071a-145b-584a-9a9b49873510/1608T-stoic_carson.ovf"
        },
        {
            "name": "photon-custom-hw10-1.0-13c08b6-GA.ova",
            "path": "images/photon-custom-hw10-1.0-13c08b6-GA.ova"
        },
        {
            "name": "CentOS_64-bit_vmx10.ova",
            "path": "images/CentOS_64-bit_vmx10.ova"
        },
        {
            "name": "wily-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova",
            "path": "images/wily-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova"
        },
        {
            "name": "photon-custom-hw10-1.0-13c08b6.ova",
            "path": "images/photon-custom-hw10-1.0-13c08b6.ova"
        },
        {
            "name": "CentOS_64-bit_vmx11.ova",
            "path": "images/CentOS_64-bit_vmx11.ova"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ubuntu_64-bit-vmx10.ova",
            "path": "images/Ubuntu_64-bit-vmx10.ova"
        },
        {
            "name": "xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova",
            "path": "images/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova"
        },
        {
            "name": "coreos_production_vmware_ova.ova",
            "path": "images/coreos_production_vmware_ova.ova"
        },
        {
            "name": "1608T-pensive_carson.ovf",
            "path": "5012e183-ad9b-f415-a1a6-e31dd5d14ba4/1608T-pensive_carson.ovf"
        },
        {
            "name": "1608T-chef-master.ovf",
            "path": "5012af5b-799e-8adb-ba90-45a226e42040/1608T-chef-master.ovf"
        },
        {
            "name": "1608T-suspicious_meitner.ovf",
            "path": "50121742-7c36-d590-8244-1eef48362adc/1608T-suspicious_meitner.ovf"
        }
    ],
    "meta": {
        "count": 5,
        "time": "0.25403s",
        "user": "jm"
    }
}

The attribute value you will use to deploy new virtual machines using an image is path.

OVA/OVF Images

Introduction

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