euca-describe-images

Shows information about an image you own, or an image you have been given permission ot execute, or a public image owned by someone else.

Syntax

euca-describe-images  [-a][-o owner ][-x executable_by ]
      [ image ]

Options

Option	Description	Required
`image`	Image ID to describe	No
`-a, --all`	Describe all Eucalyptus machine images (EMIs)	No
`-o, owner owner`	Returns EMIs owned by the specified owner. Valid values: `self` \| `Account ID`	No
`-x, --executable-by user_id`	Returns EMIs the specified user ID has launch permissions for	No

Common Options

Option	Description
`--region region`	Region to direct requests to. Only valid for EC2 endpoints.
`-U,--url url`	URL of the cloud to connect to. Expects an EC2 endpoint /services/Eucalyptus.
`-a,--access-key access_key_id`	User's access key ID
`-s,--secret-key secret_key`	User's secret key
`--config configuration_path`	Read credentials and cloud settings from the specified config file. Default: `$HOME/.eucarc or /etc/euca2ools/eucarc`.
`--debug`	Prints what the command sends to the server and what it receives from the server. Use when you're trying to debug Euca2ools.
`--debugger`	Enable interactive debugger on error
`-h,--help`	Display the manual page for the command.
`--version`	Display the version of this tool

Output

Output type identifier ("IMAGE")
Image ID
Manifest path
Account ID that registered the image
Image status (available, pending, failed)
Image visibility (public or private)
Product codes, if any, attached to the instance
Image architecture (i386 or x86_64)
Image type (machine, kernel, or ramdisk)
Kernel ID of the kernel (machine images only)
RAM ID associated with the image (machine images only)
Root device type (ebs or instance-store)
Virtualization type (paravirtual or hvm)
Output type identifier ("BLOCKDEVICEMAPPING") for EMIs that use one or more EBS volumes
Any tags assigned to the image
Hypervisor type (xen or kvm)

Example

euca-describe-images
IMAGE   eki-3E5B3B31
mah-bukkit/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic.manifest.xml  000000000001
available   public      x86_64  kernel          instance-store
IMAGE   emi-815A395B    mah-bukkit/ubuntu.9-04.x86-64.img.manifest.xml
790547641019    available   public      x86_64  machine eki-3E5B3B31
 eri-32B338DC    instance-store
IMAGE   eri-32B338DC
mah-bukkit/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic.manifest.xml   000000000001
available   public      x86_64  ramdisk         instance-store