[Openstack] Create instance fails on creating block device - Block Device Mapping is Invalid

Abhishek Shrivastava abhishek at cloudbyte.com
Tue Jun 21 11:19:42 UTC 2016


​Have you tried any other flavors?

For instance if you are creating a 1GB volume then you can go for flavor
m1.tiny flavor.

So try creating a VM having boot volume size 1GB​ and use flavor m1.tiny
and see if it works.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Turbo Fredriksson <turbo at bayour.com> wrote:

> On Jun 21, 2016, at 11:40 AM, Abhishek Shrivastava wrote:
>
> > The first thing I want to know
> >
> >   - Which VM are you creating(i.e; which OS image are you taking)?
>
> I've tried both the CirrOS and Debian GNU/Linux Jessie images.
>
>   http://download.cirros-cloud.net/0.3.4/cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-disk.img
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/8.5.0/debian-8.5.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2
>
> >   - What size are you using and all?
>
> Size? I've tried creating a volume from those images from 2GB to 20GB.
>
> >   - Which flavor are you using for VM creation.?
>
> My own take on the m1.flavor:
>
>   openstack flavor create --ram  1024 --disk 10 --vcpus 1 --disk  5 m1.tiny
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*Thanks & Regards,*
*Abhishek*
*Cloudbyte Inc. <http://www.cloudbyte.com>*
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