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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi Greg -</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">This is not so well documented in Grizzly, but see folsom docs:</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif"><a href="http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/boot-from-volume.html">http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/boot-from-volume.html</a></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">to boot from a volume:</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">nova boot --flavor <f> --block_device_mapping vda=<vol_id>:::0 test_from_vol</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">to boot from a snapshot of a bootable volume:</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">nova boot --flavor <f> --block_device_mapping vda=<snap_id>:snap::0 test_from_snap</font><br>
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Bill Owen <br>
billowen@us.ibm.com<br>
Strategic Test Methods and Tools <br>
520-799-4829, T/L 321-4829<br>
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<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">From: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Greg Chavez <greg.chavez@gmail.com></font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">To: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">openstack@lists.openstack.org, </font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Date: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">08/15/2013 04:05 PM</font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Subject: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">[Openstack] Booting from a volume snapshot via the CLI</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">I can't figure out what options I need to use with "nova boot" in order to boot from a bootable volume snapshot. Can somebody hit me with the clue stick please? Thanks in advance.</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">-- <br>
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--Greg Chavez<br>
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