def image_export(self, image_name, dest_url, remote_host=None):
        """Export the specific image to remote host or local file system
        :param image_name: image name that can be uniquely identify an image
        :param dest_path: the location to store exported image, eg.
        /opt/images, the image will be stored in folder
         /opt/images/
        :param remote_host: the server that export image to, the format is
         username@IP eg. nova@192.168.99.1, if remote_host is
        None, it means the image will be stored in local server
        :returns a dictionary that contains the exported image info
        {
         'image_name': the image_name that exported
         'image_path': the image_path after exported
         'os_version': the os version of the exported image
         'md5sum': the md5sum of the original image
        }
        """
        image_info = self._ImageDbOperator.image_query_record(image_name)
        if not image_info:
            msg = ("The image %s does not exist in image repository"
                      % image_name)
            LOG.error(msg)
            raise exception.SDKImageOperationError(rs=20, img=image_name)

        image_type = image_info[0]['type']
        # TODO: (nafei) according to image_type, detect image exported path
        # For multiple disk image, make the tgz firstly, the specify the
        # source_path to be something like: 0100-0101-0102.tgz
        if image_type == 'rootonly':
            source_path = '/'.join([CONF.image.sdk_image_repository,
                               const.IMAGE_TYPE['DEPLOY'],
                               image_info[0]['imageosdistro'],
                               image_name,
                               CONF.zvm.user_root_vdev])
        else:
            pass

        self._scheme2backend(urlparse.urlparse(dest_url).scheme).image_export(
                                                    source_path, dest_url,
                                                    remote_host=remote_host)

        # TODO: (nafei) for multiple disks image, update the expect_dict
        # to be the tgz's md5sum
        export_dict = {'image_name': image_name,
                       'image_path': dest_url,
                       'os_version': image_info[0]['imageosdistro'],
                       'md5sum': image_info[0]['md5sum']}
        LOG.info("Image %s export successfully" % image_name)
        return export_dict