The eucalyptus-imaging-service is a service that is installed in the Eucalyptus Imaging EMI.

In order to use eucalyptus-imaging-service, you will need a few things:

• A Eucalyptus EMI on which to install the service
• ntp
• python-boto >= 2.8.0
• python-httplib2
• python-lxml
• python-m2ext
• python-requests
• sudo

To install the eucalyptus-imaging-worker package straight from the repository, run:

$ ./install-worker.sh

This will create various directories and copy configuration files, as well as create a imaging-worker user account.

The eucalyptus-imaging-worker service can be started by running:

$ service eucalyptus-imaging-worker start

Please Note: This service will not work unless it is running on a Eucalyptus instance that has been instantiated by the Eucalyptus Balancer service.