l.b.NodeImage(object) : class documentation

An operating system image.

NodeImage objects are typically returned by the driver for the cloud provider in response to the list_images function

>>> from libcloud.drivers.dummy import DummyNodeDriver
>>> driver = DummyNodeDriver(0)
>>> image = driver.list_images()[0]
>>> image.name
'Ubuntu 9.10'

Apart from name and id, there is no further standard information; other parameters are stored in a driver specific "extra" variable

When creating a node, a node image should be given as an argument to the create_node function to decide which OS image to use.

>>> node = driver.create_node(image=image)