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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>There seemed to be two ways to create a VM via cli:</div><div><br></div><div>1) use neutron command to create a port first and then use nova command to attach the vm to that port(neutron port-create.. followed by nova boot --nic port-id=)</div><div>2)Just use nova command and a port will implicitly be created for you(nova boot --nic net-id=net-uuid).</div><div><br></div><div>My question is : is #2 sufficient enough to cover all the scenarios? In other words, if we are not allowed to use #1(can only use #2 to create vm), would we miss anything?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards!</div><div>Wanjing Xu</div> </div></body>
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