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# Create and manage images

<div className="text">As an administrative user, you can create and manage images for the projects to which you belong. You can also create and manage images for users in all projects to which you have access.</div>
<div className="text">To create and manage images in specified projects as an end user, see the <span style={{textDecoration:'underline', color: '#0000b3'}}>upload and manage images with Dashboard in OpenStack End User Guide</span> and <span style={{textDecoration:'underline', color: '#0000b3'}}>manage images with CLI in OpenStack End User Guide.</span></div>
<div className="text">To create and manage images as an administrator for other users, use the following procedures.</div>

<div className="head">Create images</div>
<div className="text">For details about image creation, see the <span style={{textDecoration:'underline', color: '#0000b3'}}> Virtual Machine Image Guide.</span></div>

<div className="text"><ol><li>Log in to the Dashboard and select the <span className="blue">admin</span> project from the drop-down list.</li><li>On the <span className="blue">Admin</span> tab, open the Compute tab and click the <span className="blue">Images</span> category. The images that you can administer for cloud users appear on this page.</li><li>Click <span className="blue">Create Image</span>, which opens the <span className="blue">Create An Image</span> window.</li></ol></div>


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<div className="text">4. In the <span className="text">Create An Image window, enter or select the following values:</span></div><br/>

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Name</td>
      <td>Enter a name for the image.</td>
      </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Description</td>
      <td>Enter a brief description of the image.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Image Source</td>
      <td>Choose the image source from the dropdown list. Your choices are Image Location and Image File.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Image File or Image Location</td>
      <td>Based on your selection, there is an Image File or Image Location field. You can include the location URL or browse for the image file on your file system and add it.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Format</td>
      <td>Select the image format.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Architecture</td>
      <td>Specify the architecture. For example, i386 for a 32-bit architecture or x86_64 for a 64-bit architecture.</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Minimum Disk (GB)</td>
      <td>Leave this field empty.</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

