gcutil does not show images or kernels

Question

The gcutil tool for google compute engine does not show any images/kernels in the list subcommand as:

$ gcutil listimages --project <project_name>
+------+-------------+---------------+--------+
| name | description | creation-time | kernel |
+------+-------------+---------------+--------+
+------+-------------+---------------+--------+

Although if we don't specify a image while provisioning a instance it provides the set of image options:

$ gcutil addinstance cj-test-001

1: projects/google/global/images/centos-6-2-v20120326
2: projects/google/global/images/centos-6-2-v20120503
3: projects/google/global/images/centos-6-2-v20120611
4: projects/google/global/images/centos-6-2-v20120621
...
22: projects/google/global/images/ubuntu-12-04-v20120611
23: projects/google/global/images/ubuntu-12-04-v20120621
24: projects/google/global/images/ubuntu-12-04-v20120912

How do i fix the problem of listing images via gcutil?

Answer 1

By default the gcutil listimages command lists the custom images for a project.

To list the default images provided by Google, run this command:

$ gcutil --project=google listimages

More details in the documentation here: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/images