[Openstack-operators] Booting from a volume

Joe Topjian joe.topjian at cybera.ca
Thu Apr 11 19:36:00 UTC 2013


Hello,

Are you using a raw image or qcow2?  Only raw images work with Folsom.
Grizzly will convert qcow to raw for you.

Here's a recent thread that discussed booting from volume:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openstack/operators/25632

Thanks,
Joe



On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Juan José Pavlik Salles <jjpavlik at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Sorry, i should have written more details. I'm working with a Folsom
> deploy, using Ubuntu 12.04.2 and KVM as hypervisor. Thanks!
>
>
> 2013/4/11 Juan José Pavlik Salles <jjpavlik at gmail.com>
>
>> Hi guys, i'm having some problems trying to boot an instance from a
>> volume. I've created a bootable volume with this sentence:
>>
>> root at cocinero:~# cinder --os-username demo --os-tenant-name demo
>> --os-password MyPassword create --image-id
>> "5fd4c15d-da66-400a-ae75-7fe2feb9a257" --display-name vol_ubuntu_12_4 3
>>
>> That worked great, i even see the volume in dashboard. Then i tried to
>> boot an instance, with this line:
>>
>> nova --os-username demo --os-tenant-name demo --os-password MyPassword
>> boot --image "Ubuntu-12.04.02-PSI" --flavor 1 --block_device_mapping
>> vda=e25e9112-9c82-45c2-b16e-660efd0de891:::0 prueba_boot_volumen1
>>
>> After executing that i go to the VNC and see:
>>
>> Booting from hard disk...
>> Boot failed, not bootable disk
>>
>> So... something is wrong. I checked the logs while creating the volumen
>> and i havent found anything bad.
>>
>> I also tried using:
>>
>> root at cocinero:~# nova --os-username demo --os-tenant-name demo
>> --os-password MyPassword volume-create --image-id
>> 5fd4c15d-da66-400a-ae75-7fe2feb9a257 --display-name volumen-booteable 3
>>
>> Instead of going straight to cinder.
>>
>> Any ideas? Thanks!!!
>> --
>> Pavlik Juan José
>>
>
>
>
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> Pavlik Juan José
>
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