[Openstack-operators] Booting from a volume

Juan José Pavlik Salles jjpavlik at gmail.com
Wed Jun 19 20:39:08 UTC 2013


Sorry i couln't test it before. Disabling file injection didn't fix my
problem. I think that running a vm from a volume needs first to copy
the image to the volume, but nova isn't doing it.

2013/6/3 Mike Wilson <geekinutah at gmail.com>:
> Juan,
>
> If you look at the stack trace:
>
> 32cb3ae0-20d7-4f6d-bdff-c040976e4a80] Injecting key into image
> c8704b4a-5e04-4134-9d75-cf2289c94bb0
>
>
> The next thing that runs:
>
> 2013-05-16 18:27:35.512 INFO nova.virt.disk.mount.nbd
> [req-729ca77e-3963-4af9-a06d-f5b7f10221c7 522c7d49af3141948d6d7ba89e3601f4
> d1a1563eb7604307bc385817ab0adccf] NBD mount error: qemu-nbd error:
> Unexpected error while running command.
> Command: sudo nova-rootwrap /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd6
> /var/lib/nova/instances/32cb3ae0-20d7-4f6d-bdff-c040976e4a80/disk
> Exit code: 1
> Stdout: ''
> Stderr: "qemu-nbd: Failed to bdrv_open
> '/var/lib/nova/instances/32cb3ae0-20d7-4f6d-bdff-c040976e4a80/disk': No such
> file or directory\n"
>
> Go ahead and try what Rafi is advising, it _should_ fix your problem as it
> effectively disables file injections.
>
> -Mike Wilson
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Juan José Pavlik Salles <jjpavlik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry Rafi, but i can't see how you relate this problem with file
>> injection. From my point of view it seems that nova is trynig to boot from a
>> file image when the image is on a cinder volume. Maybe you are seeing
>> something i don't, what do you think?
>>
>>
>> 2013/6/3 Rafi Khardalian <rafi at metacloud.com>
>>>
>>> I checked the code path for file injection and I can't see any way it
>>> would ever work when booting from a volume.  Please open a bug about this.
>>> To work around the issue, you can disable file injection entirely by adding
>>> the following to nova.conf on your compute nodes:
>>>
>>>     libvirt_inject_partition = -2
>>>
>>> My personal recommendation is never to use file injection and rely on
>>> guest-level configuration tools such as cloud-init to perform equivalent
>>> functions.  Nonetheless, as long as file injection officially exists as a
>>> Nova feature, this is a valid bug.
>>>
>>> Rafi
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Juan José Pavlik Salles
>>> <jjpavlik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi guys, i ran into a problem trying to boot from a volume in my grizzly
>>>> deployment. I've created a 10Gbytes volume but when i try to boot my ubuntu
>>>> image it doesn't work. In nova-compu.log i found:
>>>>
>>>> 2013-05-16 18:27:33.181 AUDIT nova.compute.manager
>>>> [req-729ca77e-3963-4af9-a06d-f5b7f10221c7 522c7d49af3141948d6d7ba89e3601f4
>>>> d1a1563eb7604307bc385817ab0adccf] [instance:
>>>> 32cb3ae0-20d7-4f6d-bdff-c040976e4a80] Booting with volume
>>>> d8773ff1-52a7-421e-bac8-102f0c0eb69d at vda
>>>> 2013-05-16 18:27:35.457 INFO nova.virt.libvirt.driver
>>>> [req-729ca77e-3963-4af9-a06d-f5b7f10221c7 522c7d49af3141948d6d7ba89e3601f4
>>>> d1a1563eb7604307bc385817ab0adccf] [instance:
>>>> 32cb3ae0-20d7-4f6d-bdff-c040976e4a80] Creating image
>>>> 2013-05-16 18:27:35.458 INFO nova.virt.libvirt.driver
>>>> [req-729ca77e-3963-4af9-a06d-f5b7f10221c7 522c7d49af3141948d6d7ba89e3601f4
>>>> d1a1563eb7604307bc385817ab0adccf] [instance:
>>>> 32cb3ae0-20d7-4f6d-bdff-c040976e4a80] Injecting key into image
>>>> c8704b4a-5e04-4134-9d75-cf2289c94bb0
>>>> 2013-05-16 18:27:35.512 INFO nova.virt.disk.mount.nbd
>>>> [req-729ca77e-3963-4af9-a06d-f5b7f10221c7 522c7d49af3141948d6d7ba89e3601f4
>>>> d1a1563eb7604307bc385817ab0adccf] NBD mount error: qemu-nbd error:
>>>> Unexpected error while running command.
>>>> Command: sudo nova-rootwrap /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf qemu-nbd -c
>>>> /dev/nbd6 /var/lib/nova/instances/32cb3ae0-20d7-4f6d-bdff-c040976e4a80/disk
>>>> Exit code: 1
>>>> Stdout: ''
>>>> Stderr: "qemu-nbd: Failed to bdrv_open
>>>> '/var/lib/nova/instances/32cb3ae0-20d7-4f6d-bdff-c040976e4a80/disk': No such
>>>> file or directory\n"
>>>> 2013-05-16 18:27:35.512 INFO nova.virt.disk.mount.api
>>>> [req-729ca77e-3963-4af9-a06d-f5b7f10221c7 522c7d49af3141948d6d7ba89e3601f4
>>>> d1a1563eb7604307bc385817ab0adccf] Device allocation failed. Will retry in 2
>>>> seconds.
>>>> 2013-05-16 18:27:37.567 INFO nova.virt.disk.mount.nbd
>>>> [req-729ca77e-3963-4af9-a06d-f5b7f10221c7 522c7d49af3141948d6d7ba89e3601f4
>>>> d1a1563eb7604307bc385817ab0adccf] NBD mount error: qemu-nbd error:
>>>> Unexpected error while running command.
>>>> Command: sudo nova-rootwrap /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf qemu-nbd -c
>>>> /dev/nbd14 /var/lib/nova/instances/32cb3ae0-20d7-4f6d-bdff-c040976e4a80/disk
>>>> Exit code: 1
>>>> Stdout: ''
>>>> Stderr: "qemu-nbd: Failed to bdrv_open
>>>> '/var/lib/nova/instances/32cb3ae0-20d7-4f6d-bdff-c040976e4a80/disk': No such
>>>> file or directory\n"
>>>>
>>>> The error actually makes sense, because the disk (the volume) is and
>>>> iscsi target, not a file in the instance directory. But why does nova look
>>>> for the file, instead of using the volume i choose? I can boot an ephimeral
>>>> instance and attach this volume and it works, but i want to create
>>>> persistent instances. Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Pavlik Salles Juan José
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>>
>>
>>
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