$ sudo apt install -y qemu-kvm virt-manager libvirt-daemon-system virtinst libvirt-clients bridge-utils

 $ sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd

$ sudo systemctl start libvirtd 

  Everything went well. I am able to  get     virt-manager up and running  and able to create the  Cloud Image from an Ubuntu22.04 Server ISO.    Then  I uploaded this cloud image  to  the All-IN-ONE kolla-ansible openstack horizon dashboard, the image creation was successful.

2. But when I tried to create an instance  by using this image  through the horizon dashboard   the instance dialog doesn't show any availability zone (nova).  

I am sure  before doing the step 1  I am able to create Linux instances using the default Cirros image multiple times  and the instances up and running successfully with the default availability zone "nova" 

( I mean kolla-ansible  all-in-one openstack installation was working fine  before doing the step 1).

But now  there is no availability zones showing in horizon for creating new instances. 

Availability Zone

I checked  in   CLI also  $ openstack hypervisor list   //it also shows (  down)   availability zones also down

3. So I decided to   reconfigure the  $ kolla-ansible -i all-in-one  reconfigure   step,  but the step fails with the following. 

RUNNING HANDLER [nova-cell : Restart nova-ssh container] ***********************
changed: [localhost]

RUNNING HANDLER [nova-cell : Restart nova-libvirt container] *******************
changed: [localhost]

RUNNING HANDLER [nova-cell : Checking libvirt container is ready] **************
FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Checking libvirt container is ready (10 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Checking libvirt container is ready (9 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Checking libvirt container is ready (8 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Checking libvirt container is ready (7 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Checking libvirt container is ready (6 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Checking libvirt container is ready (5 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Checking libvirt container is ready (4 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Checking libvirt container is ready (3 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Checking libvirt container is ready (2 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Checking libvirt container is ready (2 retries left).

FAILED - RETRYING: [localhost]: Checking libvirt container is ready (1 retries left).
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"attempts": 10, "changed": true, "cmd": "set -o pipefail && docker exec -i nova_libvirt ls /run/libvirtd.pid\n", "delta": "0:00:00.016249", "end": "2024-02-21 16:21:22.750454", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2024-02-21 16:21:22.734205", "stderr": "Error response from daemon: container 46d139a236f57e41cfcf3121b3879ea01eae774d771415c5418b003c839f3257 is not running", "stderr_lines": ["Error response from daemon: container 46d139a236f57e41cfcf3121b3879ea01eae774d771415c5418b003c839f3257 is not running"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}

Each time   I do reconfigure,   the  reconfiguration fails by reaching the step  RUNNING HANDLER [nova-cell : Restart nova-libvirt container] *******************

4. Why it fails, what the root cause of it,   I suspect  due to step 1 all the errors happened .

4. How can I recover the   all-in-one openstack installation back  and be able to create instances and images as earlier?

 Only option is to   fresh deploy  the   kolla-ansible -i all-in-one ?   Then all the current VM and images will all be lost ? (

 If it in production what the method is to recover ?? OR will loss all data in production by running deployment again ? ) 

Greetings,

Krish