<div dir="ltr">hi <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Ken'ichi Ohmichi,</span><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Thanks for the suggestion ! I tried --file option but it failed.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>

</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Command:</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">nova boot --flavor 3 --image bae8715c-1758-4949-8bf7-e6bb4e983e67 --key_name key1  --file /tmp/input.xml=/home/ubuntu110/input.xml  vm2</font><br>


</div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">nova.conf file :, </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div>--config_drive_format=iso9660</div><div>
--libvirt_inject_partition=-2</div><div>                                   </div></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">It fails with the following error:</font></div>


<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><p><b><span style="color:red">2013-05-21 02:04:49 TRACE
nova.rpc.amqp Command: sudo nova-rootwrap mkdir -p
/tmp/openstack-disk-mount-tmpWvaDMs/tmp</span></b></p>

<p><b><span style="color:red">2013-05-21 02:04:49 TRACE
nova.rpc.amqp Exit code: 1</span></b></p>

<p><b><span style="color:red">2013-05-21 02:04:49 TRACE
nova.rpc.amqp Stdout: ''</span></b></p>

<p><b><span style="color:red">2013-05-21 02:04:49 TRACE
nova.rpc.amqp Stderr: "/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory
`/tmp/openstack-disk-mount-tmpWvaDMs/tmp': Read-only file system\n"</span></b></p>

<p><b><span style="color:red">2013-05-21 02:04:49 TRACE
nova.rpc.amqp</span></b></p>

<p>2013-05-21 02:04:54 DEBUG nova.manager [-] Running periodic
task ComputeManager._publish_service_capabilities from (pid=1479)
periodic_tasks /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/manager.py:152</p>

<p>2013-05-21 02:04:54 DEBUG nova.manager [-] Notifying
Schedulers of capabilities ... from (pid=1479) _publish_service_capabilities
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/manager.py:203</p>

<p>2013-05-21 02:04:54 DEBUG nova.rpc.amqp [-] Making
asynchronous fanout cast... from (pid=1479) fanout_cast
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/rpc/amqp.py:359</p>

<p>2013-05-21 02:04:54 DEBUG nova.manager [-] Running periodic
task ComputeManager._poll_rescued_instances from (pid=1479) periodic_tasks
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/manager.py:152</p>

<p>2013-05-21 02:04:54 DEBUG nova.manager [-] Skipping
ComputeManager._sync_power_states, 1 ticks left until next run from (pid=1479)
periodic_tasks /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/manager.py</p>

<p> </p><p>Regards,<br></p><p>Rashmi</p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Ken'ichi Ohmichi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp" target="_blank">oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp</a>></span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Hi Rashmi,<br>
<div><br>
On Thu, 9 May 2013 09:31:25 +0530<br>
Rashmi SN <<a href="mailto:snrashmisn@gmail.com" target="_blank">snrashmisn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Rashmi SN <<a href="mailto:snrashmisn@gmail.com" target="_blank">snrashmisn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
</div><div>> > I would want to associate a floppy disk image say "example.flp" to a VM<br>
> > when I instantiate.<br>
> > The idea is that , during installation , the image picks up certain<br>
> > configuration details from a defined file from the floppy image (flp).<br>
> > How do I achieve this with openstack nova (boot) commands.<br>
<br>
</div>I guess you can use --file option of 'nova boot' command, if a defined<br>
file is small.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
Ken'ichi Ohmichi<br>
<br>
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