<div dir="ltr">Hi!<div><br></div><div>From my Ubuntu Desktop, I can easily access my OpenStack Compute nodes and its Instances with Virt-Manager... Also, from root user at your compute node, your probably can use the command "virsh edit instance-xxxxxxx" to add the CD...</div>

<div><br></div><div>My Hypervisors (Compute nodes) are based on  Ubuntu 12.04 + KVM.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not keep changing the Instances VM configurations using virt-manager, only from OpenStack Dashboard but, it is helpful when something gets wrong with a Instance, so, when this happens, add a CD to it, attach the sysrescuecd ISO, fix it, detach, remove the virtual CD drive and restart the Instance...</div>

<div><br></div><div>I think that this procedure will not hurt your OpenStack but, would be nice to hear from someone more expert...   =)</div><div><br></div><div>If someone else says that this is bad, don't do it.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Thiago</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 August 2013 04:41, Mahardhika <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mahardika.gilang@andalabs.com" target="_blank">mahardika.gilang@andalabs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

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    <div>Hi, attaching cdrom to instance still
      not work . please help.<div><div class="h5"><br>
      On 8/24/2013 11:01 PM, wu jiang wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Yes, as you said. Plz have a try~ :-)</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:37 PM,
          Andalabs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mahardika.gilang@andalabs.com" target="_blank">mahardika.gilang@andalabs.com</a>></span>
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              <div>Hi i will give it try later, as all machine is on
                office</div>
              <div>Does this rescue will recovering or i can
                troubleshoot the problem on instance such as cant
                booting, error grub or kernel etch</div>
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              <div>Thanks!</div>
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                Email-an dari Kokpit</div>
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                  On 22 Agt 2013, at 08:32 PM, wu jiang <<a href="mailto:wingwj@gmail.com" target="_blank">wingwj@gmail.com</a>>
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                    <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi,
                        you can find the "rescue" function in Nova.</span>
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                        Here're simple steps:</div>
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                        <div>1. Add a "rescue_image_id=$(imageId you
                          want to choose)" in nova.conf firstly. If not
                          given, the origin image will be used.</div>
                        <div>2. Secondly, waiting for your VM turn to
                          "ACTIVE" after you execute "nova rescue $vmid"
                          command.</div>
                        <div>3. Access to your VM via VNC and fix it. </div>
                        <div>4. Execute "nova unrescue $vmid" back to
                          normal.</div>
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                        <div>Please see there for details: <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/RescueMode" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/RescueMode</a></div>
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                        <div>Thanks~</div>
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                      <div>On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:12 PM,
                        Mahardhika <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mahardika.gilang@andalabs.com" target="_blank">mahardika.gilang@andalabs.com</a>></span>
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                            <div>Hi, thanks for answering<br>
                              i mean attaching disk for troubleshooting
                              issue, likes system rescue and etc<br>
                              i want to boot from disk, i tried used
                              block device mapping but it fail.
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                                  On 8/20/2013 2:56 PM, Razique Mahroua
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                                <div> Good question,
                                  <div>I do it manually by editing the
                                    domain on the compute node.</div>
                                  <div>Assuming you are using the
                                    libvirt driver, you can follow this
                                    procedure:</div>
                                  <div><a href="http://builder.virt-tools.org/artifacts/libvirt-virshcmdref/html/sect-attach-disk.html" target="_blank">http://builder.virt-tools.org/artifacts/libvirt-virshcmdref/html/sect-attach-disk.html</a></div>


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                                  <div>Regards,</div>
                                  <div>Razique</div>
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                                      <div>Le 20 août 2013 à 08:40,
                                        Mahardhika <<a href="mailto:mahardika.gilang@andalabs.com" target="_blank">mahardika.gilang@andalabs.com</a>>

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                                      <blockquote type="cite">Hi,
                                        wondering how to attach cd with
                                        iso on it to running instance?<br>
                                        iso has been submit to glance.<br>
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                                        Regards,<br>
                                        Mahardhika Gilang<br>
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