For anyone interested, i've figured out that the instances were not getting spawned because the amount of memory in the flavor was equal to the maximum memory available through the underlying hardware.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Leander Bessa Beernaert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leanderbb@gmail.com" target="_blank">leanderbb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span>Hello,</span><div><br></div><div>I'm unable to boot any image with a flavor that has a disk space associated with it. It always fails at the spawning state. Below it the log output of nova-compute:</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
2012-05-28 16:20:25 ERROR nova.compute.manager [req-1c725f9c-acae-47c4-b5ae-9ed5d2d9830c 9494d025721c4d7bb28a16fa796f9414 04282e9aff474d2383bb4d4417673e0a] [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7] Instance failed to spawn</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7] Traceback (most recent call last):</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 592, in _spawn</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7]     self._legacy_nw_info(network_info), block_device_info)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/exception.py", line 114, in wrapped</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7]     return f(*args, **kw)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py", line 922, in spawn</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7]     self._create_new_domain(xml)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py", line 1575, in _create_new_domain</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7]     domain.createWithFlags(launch_flags)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7]   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 581, in createWithFlags</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7]     if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreateWithFlags() failed', dom=self)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7] libvirtError: Unable to read from monitor: Connection reset by peer</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7] </blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 DEBUG nova.compute.manager [req-1c725f9c-acae-47c4-b5ae-9ed5d2d9830c 9494d025721c4d7bb28a16fa796f9414 04282e9aff474d2383bb4d4417673e0a] [instance: 10d7c8e0-e05b-4e57-b722-dab5771261b7] Deallocating network for instance from (pid=23518) _deallocate_network /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py:616</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:25 DEBUG nova.rpc.amqp [req-1c725f9c-acae-47c4-b5ae-9ed5d2d9830c 9494d025721c4d7bb28a16fa796f9414 04282e9aff474d2383bb4d4417673e0a] Making asynchronous cast on network... from (pid=23518) cast /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/rpc/amqp.py:346</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 ERROR nova.rpc.amqp [req-1c725f9c-acae-47c4-b5ae-9ed5d2d9830c 9494d025721c4d7bb28a16fa796f9414 04282e9aff474d2383bb4d4417673e0a] Exception during message handling</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp Traceback (most recent call last):</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/rpc/amqp.py", line 252, in _process_data</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     rval = node_func(context=ctxt, **node_args)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/exception.py", line 114, in wrapped</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     return f(*args, **kw)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 177, in decorated_function</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     sys.exc_info())</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 24, in __exit__</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     self.gen.next()</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 171, in decorated_function</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     return function(self, context, instance_uuid, *args, **kwargs)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 651, in run_instance</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     do_run_instance()</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/utils.py", line 945, in inner</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     retval = f(*args, **kwargs)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 650, in do_run_instance</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     self._run_instance(context, instance_uuid, **kwargs)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 451, in _run_instance</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     self._set_instance_error_state(context, instance_uuid)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 24, in __exit__</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     self.gen.next()</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 432, in _run_instance</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     self._deallocate_network(context, instance)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 24, in __exit__</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     self.gen.next()</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 429, in _run_instance</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     injected_files, admin_password)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 592, in _spawn</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     self._legacy_nw_info(network_info), block_device_info)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/exception.py", line 114, in wrapped</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     return f(*args, **kw)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py", line 922, in spawn</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     self._create_new_domain(xml)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py", line 1575, in _create_new_domain</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     domain.createWithFlags(launch_flags)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 581, in createWithFlags</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp     if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreateWithFlags() failed', dom=self)</blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">2012-05-28 16:20:26 TRACE nova.rpc.amqp libvirtError: Unable to read from monitor: Connection reset by peer</blockquote>

</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Any suggestions?</div><div><br></div><div><br>Regards,</div><div><br>Leander</div>
</blockquote></div><br>