Google Compute Engine : Use snapshot from another project?

Question

I have two projects in my developer console. I have taken a \"Snapshot\" of one of the VMs in project-1. I want to create a new VM in project-2 using the snapshot created in

Answer 1

The answer posted by @chrispomeroy worked for me, but I was able to simplify it a little as I need to do this more and more.

Let's say you have an image in project-1, and need to create an instance using that image in project-2.

gcloud config set project "project-2"
gcloud compute instances create  \
    --image  \
    --image-project "project-1"

This eliminates the need to worry about using a URL for anything.

EDIT: My answer pretty much looks like his at this point, but the docs for this stuff is here:

gcloud compute instances create