Is /var not a separate filesystem? By default, your instances run out of /var/lib/nova/instances<div>Make sure that has enough space<span></span><br><br>On Thursday, January 17, 2013, Zach Easterbrook wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Foreword, all of this is on essex.</div><div><br></div>I'm trying to deploy a virtual machine image I've made myself following a procedure similar to the one outlined here: <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/manually-creating-qcow2-images.html#d6e6214" target="_blank">http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/manually-creating-qcow2-images.html#d6e6214</a> (I used virt-manager and x11 forwarding instead of VNC to connect to the instance)<div>
<br></div><div>However, when I attempt to boot this image using the following command: (6 is a custom flavor)</div><div>nova boot --poll --flavor 6 --image <img id> --key_name my_key --availability_zone=zone1 t1dbvm</div>
<div>it will say "Error building instance"</div><div><br></div><div>on the compute node I'm seeing this:</div><div><div><a href="http://paste.debian.net/225727/" target="_blank">http://paste.debian.net/225727/</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Then a bit further down:</div><div>2013-01-17 11:58:41 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device<br></div><div><div>2013-01-17 11:58:41 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>I'm wondering if my root partition is too small. The image I'm trying to deploy is 10GB but I only have ~7.6GB available on root, (but 400GB+ on /home).</div><div><br></div><div>
Any thoughts? I know this VM image is bootable, I can boot it manually using virt-manager.</div><div><br></div><div>PS: I don't know if it's related but in the nova-compute.log I'm also seeing "Instance found in database but not known by hypervisor. Setting power to NOSTATE."</div>
<div><br></div><div>Help is appreciated, thanks very much in advance.</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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