[openstack-dev] running VM manually using openstack

James Penick james_r_penick at yahoo.com
Tue May 13 15:38:22 UTC 2014


Hey Sonia,
 Do the backing file and instance directory exist? "-drive file=/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/3765ec4d-48d0-4f0b-9f7d-2f73ee3a3852/disk" implies that both that directory exists and the instance image is contained within it. 
-James

On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 6:22 AM, sonia verma <soniaverma9727 at gmail.com> wrote:
 
HI 

I have install openstack using devstack.I'm using multinode setup with one controller node and one compute node.I'm able to launch VM from openstack dashboard onto the controller node.
At the controller node when i do ps -ef | grep nova,the following appears.. 

 ps -ef | grep nova
root       799   798  0 11:48 pts/22   00:00:00 sg libvirtd /usr/local/bin/nova-compute --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
shiv       801   799  0 11:48 pts/22   00:00:55 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-compute --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
shiv      1233  1232  1 11:48 pts/23   00:03:45 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-conductor --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
shiv      1457  1233  0 11:48 pts/23   00:00:45 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-conductor --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
shiv      1458  1233  0 11:48 pts/23   00:00:45 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-conductor --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
shiv      1459  1233  0 11:48 pts/23   00:00:45 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-conductor --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
shiv      1460  1233  0 11:48 pts/23   00:00:45 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-conductor --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
shiv      1578  1577  0 11:48 pts/24   00:00:09 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-cert --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
shiv      1880  1879  0 11:48 pts/25   00:00:10 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-scheduler --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
shiv      2221  2219  0 11:48 pts/26   00:00:05 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-novncproxy --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf --web /opt/stack/noVNC
shiv      2431  2429  0 11:48 pts/27   00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-xvpvncproxy --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
shiv      2670  2669  0 11:48 pts/28   00:00:09 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-consoleauth --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
shiv      2897  2895  0 11:48 pts/29   00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-objectstore --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf
122      13484     1 19 15:43 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-1.0 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name instance-00000003 -uuid cec324c7-2398-49b8-844b-08c6cca7fff3 -smbios type=1,manufacturer=OpenStack Foundation,product=OpenStack Nova,version=2014.2,serial=44454c4c-5600-1039-804c-c7c04f595831,uuid=cec324c7-2398-49b8-844b-08c6cca7fff3 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/instance-00000003.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -no-hpet -no-shutdown -drive file=/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/cec324c7-2398-49b8-844b-08c6cca7fff3/disk,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -drive
 file=/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/cec324c7-2398-49b8-844b-08c6cca7fff3/disk.config,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-1,readonly=on,format=raw,cache=none -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=1,drive=drive-ide0-1-1,id=ide0-1-1 -netdev tap,fd=19,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=20 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=fa:16:3e:9b:09:3b,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev file,id=charserial0,path=/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/cec324c7-2398-49b8-844b-08c6cca7fff3/console.log -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev pty,id=charserial1 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial1,id=serial1 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 -k en-us -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
shiv     14867 20602  0 15:43 pts/7    00:00:00 grep --color=auto nova
shiv     31444 31443  1 11:47 pts/16   00:03:45 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-api
shiv     31469 31444  0 11:47 pts/16   00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-api
shiv     31470 31444  0 11:47 pts/16   00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-api
shiv     31471 31444  0 11:47 pts/16   00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/nova-api

I see the VM instance booted using KVM utility on to the controller node.
However when i try to launch VM manually using the similar command but changing the instances id and name as above..

sudo /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-1.0 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name instance-00000002 -uuid 3765ec4d-48d0-4f0b-9f7d-2f73ee3a3852 -smbios type=1,manufacturer=OpenStack Foundation,product=OpenStack Nova,version=2014.2,serial=44454c4c-4400-1034-8042-c7c04f313032,uuid=3765ec4d-48d0-4f0b-9f7d-2f73ee3a3852 -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/instance-00000002.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -no-hpet -no-shutdown -drive file=/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/3765ec4d-48d0-4f0b-9f7d-2f73ee3a3852/disk,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -drive file=/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/3765ec4d-48d0-4f0b-9f7d-2f73ee3a3852/disk.config,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-1,readonly=on,format=raw,cache=none
 -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=1,drive=drive-ide0-1-1,id=ide0-1-1 -netdev tap,fd=18,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=fa:16:3e:1f:6e:47,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev file,id=charserial0,path=/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/3765ec4d-48d0-4f0b-9f7d-2f73ee3a3852/console.log -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev pty,id=charserial1 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial1,id=serial1 -usb -vnc 0.0.0.0:1 -k en-us -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 

I'm getting below error..

chardev: opening backend "file" failed: No such file or directory

Please help regarding this.

Thanks..
Sonia


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