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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<refentry id="vboxmanage-cloudimage" lang="en">
  <refentryinfo>
    <pubdate>$Date: 2022-08-22 19:43:14 +0200 (Mon, 22 Aug 2022) $</pubdate>
    <title>VBoxManage cloud image</title>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>VBoxManage-cloudimage</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>VBoxManage-cloudimage</refname>
    <refpurpose>Manage the cloud images</refpurpose>
    <refclass>Oracle VM VirtualBox</refclass>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-cloudimage-create" sepchar=" "> <!-- The 'id' is mandatory and must start with 'synopsis-'. -->
      <command>VBoxManage cloud</command>
        <arg choice="req">--provider=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
        <arg choice="req">--profile=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
        <arg choice="plain">image</arg>
        <arg choice="plain">create</arg>
        <arg choice="req">--display-name=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
        <arg>--bucket-name=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
        <arg>--object-name=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
        <arg>--instance-id=<replaceable>unique id</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
    <cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-cloudimage-info" sepchar=" ">
      <command>VBoxManage cloud</command>
      <arg choice="req">--provider=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="req">--profile=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="plain">image</arg>
      <arg choice="plain">info</arg>
      <arg choice="req">--id=<replaceable>unique id</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
    <cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-cloudimage-delete" sepchar=" ">
      <command>VBoxManage cloud</command>
      <arg choice="req">--provider=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="req">--profile=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="plain">image</arg>
      <arg choice="plain">delete</arg>
      <arg choice="req">--id=<replaceable>unique id</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
    <cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-cloudimage-import" sepchar=" ">
      <command>VBoxManage cloud</command>
      <arg choice="req">--provider=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="req">--profile=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="plain">image</arg>
      <arg choice="plain">import</arg>
      <arg choice="req">--id=<replaceable>unique id</replaceable></arg>
      <arg>--bucket-name=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg>--object-name=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
    <cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-cloudimage-export" sepchar=" ">
      <command>VBoxManage cloud</command>
      <arg choice="req">--provider=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="req">--profile=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="plain">image</arg>
      <arg choice="plain">export</arg>
      <arg choice="req">--id=<replaceable>unique id</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice="req">--display-name=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg>--bucket-name=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg>--object-name=<replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

    <refsect2 id="vboxmanage-cloudimage-common-options">
      <title>Common options</title>
      <remark role="help-scope" condition="GLOBAL"/>
      <para>The subcommands of <command>cloudimage</command> implement the standard operations for a cloud image
        like create/delete/show/import/export. The next common options must be placed between the "cloud" and  the following sub-commands:</para>
      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>--provider=<replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
          <listitem><para>Short cloud provider name.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term>--profile=<replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
          <listitem><para>Cloud profile name. </para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>

    <refsect2 id="vboxmanage-cloudimage-create">
      <title>cloud image create</title>
      <remark role="help-copy-synopsis"/>
      <para>
        Creates new image in the Cloud.
        There are two standard ways to create an image in the Cloud:
        1. Create an image from an object in the Cloud Storage;
        2. Create an image from an existing cloud instance.
        For the 1st approach next parameters are required:
        bucket-name - cloud bucket name where an object is located;
        object-name - name of object in the bucket;
        display-name - name for new image in the Cloud.
        For the 2d approach next parameters are required:
        instance-id - Id of instance in the Cloud;
        display-name - name for new image in the Cloud.
      </para>
      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--display-name</option></term><listitem><para>Name for new image in the Cloud.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--bucket-name</option></term><listitem><para>Cloud bucket name where an object is located.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--object-name</option></term><listitem><para>Name of object in the bucket.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--instance-id</option></term><listitem><para>Unique identifier which fully identifies the instance in the Cloud.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>

    <refsect2 id="vboxmanage-cloudimage-info">
      <title>cloud image info</title>
      <remark role="help-copy-synopsis"/>
      <para>
        Display information about a cloud image with a specified id.
      </para>
      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--id</option></term><listitem><para>Unique identifier which fully identifies the image in the Cloud.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>

    <refsect2 id="vboxmanage-cloudimage-delete">
      <title>cloud image delete</title>
      <remark role="help-copy-synopsis"/>
      <para>
        Delete an image with a specified id from the Cloud.
      </para>
      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--id</option></term><listitem><para>Unique identifier which fully identifies the image in the Cloud.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>

    <refsect2 id="vboxmanage-cloudimage-import">
      <title>cloud image import</title>
      <remark role="help-copy-synopsis"/>
      <para>
        Import an image with a specified id from the Cloud to a local host.
        The result is an object in the local "temp" folder on the local host.
        Possible approach may have two general steps:
        1. Create an object from an image in the Cloud Storage;
        2. Download the object to the local host.
        So the next parameters may be required:
        bucket-name - cloud bucket name where the object will be created;
        object-name - name of object in the bucket. if parameter "object-name" is absent a displayed image name is used.
        If the first step isn't needed only the parameter "id" is required.
      </para>
      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--id</option></term><listitem><para>Unique identifier which fully identifies the image in the Cloud.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--bucket-name</option></term><listitem><para>Cloud bucket name where an object will be created.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--object-name</option></term>
            <listitem>
              <para>
                Name of created object in the bucket. The downloaded object will have this name.
              </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>

    <refsect2 id="vboxmanage-cloudimage-export">
      <title>cloud image export</title>
      <remark role="help-copy-synopsis"/>
      <para>
        Export an existing VBox image with a specified uuid from a local host to the Cloud.
        The result is new image in the Cloud.
        Possible approach may have two general steps:
        1. Upload VBox image to the Cloud Storage;
        2. Create an image from the uploaded object.
        So the next parameters may be required:
        bucket-name -cloud bucket name where the object will be uploaded;
        object-name - name of object in the bucket. If parameter "object-name" is absent the image id is used;
        display-name - name for new image in the Cloud.
        If the first step isn't needed the parameters "id" and "display-name" are required only.
      </para>
      <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--id</option></term><listitem><para>Unique identifier of the image in the VirtualBox.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--display-name</option></term><listitem><para>Name for new image in the Cloud.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--bucket-name</option></term><listitem><para>Cloud bucket name where the image (object) will be uploaded.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        <varlistentry>
          <term><option>--object-name</option></term><listitem><para>Name of object in the bucket.</para></listitem>
        </varlistentry>
      </variablelist>
    </refsect2>
  </refsect1>

</refentry>