I believe that you have broken your configuration files. Please do make sure that your nova confi files are proper. I had similar issue where in i had to change the libvirt option to QEMU because some KVM issue and the images started spawning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20130205/627d7378/attachment.html>