Hi joe. > euca-describe-availability-zones but it failed as you can see below. Try using the "stack" user. This is working fine for me one a fresh devstack installation: cstack at devstack001:~$ cd devstack/ stack at devstack001:~/devstack$ source openrc stack at devstack001:~/devstack$ euca-describe-availability-zones AVAILABILITYZONE nova available HTH, Christian. -- Christian Berendt Linux / Unix Consultant & Developer Mail: berendt at b1-systems.de B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537