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Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had an issue with `gcp.compute.InstanceFromMachineImage` when using it across projects?

For example:
```const myInstance = new gcp.compute.InstanceFromMachineImage(
  `my-instance`,
  {
    zone: 'australia-southeast1-a',
    project: 'vm-project',
    sourceMachineImage: 'projects/image-project/global/machineImages/my-image',
    networkInterfaces: [{ network: vpcId, subnetwork: mySubnet }],
  }
);```
when I do this, it tries to look up `sourceMachineImage`  from `'projects/vm-project/global/machineImages/my-image'` which of course doesn't exist :confused:

Any ideas?

I had this issue with the same resource, and <@U022S4W6W00> ended up helping me to use the Instance resource instead:

```instance = gcp.compute.Instance("example",
    name="example",
    project="example_project",
    machine_type="n1-standard-8",
    zone="example-zone"",
    boot_disk=gcp.compute.InstanceBootDiskArgs(
        initialize_params=gcp.compute.InstanceBootDiskInitializeParamsArgs(
            image="image-project/image-name"
        )),
    network_interfaces=[gcp.compute.InstanceNetworkInterfaceArgs(
        network="example_network",
        subnetwork="example_subnet",
        access_configs=[gcp.compute.InstanceNetworkInterfaceAccessConfigArgs(
            nat_ip="example_vm_ip"
        )],
    )],
    service_account=gcp.compute.InstanceServiceAccountArgs(
        scopes=["<https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform>"],
    ),
    opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(depends_on=[]))```

I think there is some issue with the `gcp.compute.InstanceFromMachineImage` resource, I never did get it to work

Hmm, now I'm getting `Error resolving image name  'image-project/image-name': Could not find image or image-project/image-name`

I've tried both `image-project/image-name`  as in your example, and `'projects/image-project/global/machineImages/image-name'`

At least its looking in the right place, but still not finding it -- it uses my service account to look for the image right? Or do I need to ensure the service account attached to the instance has access? I'm actually able to use the same service account to deploy an instance in the `image-project` project :confused:

I’m not really sure as the image I used was publicly available so I was able to access it just with the name of the project and the image name :confused: sorry I can’t be more helpful!

turned out i was trying to use a machine image for the disk image, WHOOPS :sweat_smile: thanks for your help Stephanie!