l.c.b.NodeImage(object) : class documentation

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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.compute.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)