This is an extension API and used to export a private image to an OBS bucket.

Before exporting an image, ensure that you have the Tenant Administrator permission for OBS.

The following private images cannot be exported:
- Full-ECS images
- Private images created from a Windows, SUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, or Oracle Linux public image
The image size must be less than 1 TB. Images larger than 128 GB support only fast export.

POST /v1/cloudimages/{image_id}/file

Table 1 lists the parameters in the URI.

**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
image_id	Yes	String	Specifies the image ID. For details about how to obtain the image ID, see Querying Images.

Request parameters

Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
bucket_url	Yes	String	Specifies the URL of the image file in the format of Bucket name:File name. NOTE: The storage class of the OBS bucket must be Standard.
file_format	Yes	String	Specifies the file format. The value can be qcow2, vhd, zvhd, or vmdk.
is_quick_export	No	Boolean	Whether to enable fast export. The value can be true or false. NOTE: If fast export is enabled, file_format cannot be specified.

Example request

POST https://{Endpoint}/v1/cloudimages/d164b5df-1bc3-4c3f-893e-3e471fd16e64/file

{
   "bucket_url": "ims-image:centos7_5.qcow2",
   "file_format": "qcow2",
   "is_quick_export": false
}

Parameter	Type	Description
job_id	String	Specifies the asynchronous job ID. For details, see Asynchronous Job Query.

Example response

STATUS CODE 200

{
    "job_id": "edc89b490d7d4392898e19b2deb34797"
}

Abnormal

Returned Value	Description
400 Bad Request	Request error. For details about the returned error code, see Error Codes.
401 Unauthorized	Authentication failed.
403 Forbidden	You do not have the rights to perform the operation.
404 Not Found	The requested resource was not found.
500 Internal Server Error	Internal service error.
503 Service Unavailable	The service is unavailable.

Exporting an Image