<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>When I launch a VM instance, I see the following message regarding floating IP in nova-network.log:</div><div><br></div><div><div>2012-11-18 15:50:29 DEBUG nova.network.manager [req-f2b4df1f-6c29-48dc-991b-93fb5eb29d08 ce016bb05df949ebbafcc7c165359d7c ce1e819636744dc680fa5515f6475e87] [instance: 4e80964e-5bd1-4df4-a517-223c79d55517] <b>floating IP allocation for instance </b>|%s| from (pid=1375) allocate_for_instance /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/network/manager.py:315</div><div>2012-11-18 15:50:29 DEBUG nova.network.manager [req-f2b4df1f-6c29-48dc-991b-93fb5eb29d08 ce016bb05df949ebbafcc7c165359d7c ce1e819636744dc680fa5515f6475e87] [instance: 4e80964e-5bd1-4df4-a517-223c79d55517] network allocations from (pid=1375) allocate_for_instance /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/network/manager.py:977</div><div>2012-11-18 15:50:29 DEBUG nova.network.manager [req-f2b4df1f-6c29-48dc-991b-93fb5eb29d08 ce016bb05df949ebbafcc7c165359d7c ce1e819636744dc680fa5515f6475e87] [instance: 4e80964e-5bd1-4df4-a517-223c79d55517] networks retrieved for instance: |[<nova.db.sqlalchemy.models.Network object at 0x47f1d10>]| from (pid=1375) allocate_for_instance /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/network/manager.py:982 </div></div><div><br></div><div>I did not configure nova to assign floating IP to VMs. Can someone please help me understand why nova-network is assigning floating IP.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Ahmed.</div><div><br></div></body></html>