[Openstack-operators] Booting from a volume

Juan José Pavlik Salles jjpavlik at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 19:40:43 UTC 2013


That makes sense!! I'm using qcow2 yes. I was looking for another good
reason to move to Grizzly and i think i just found it hahaha. I was think
about moving in a week or two, but... will be earlier than expected. Is
there any workaround for this in Folsom? Thanks Jow


2013/4/11 Joe Topjian <joe.topjian at cybera.ca>

> Hello,
>
> Are you using a raw image or qcow2?  Only raw images work with Folsom.
> Grizzly will convert qcow to raw for you.
>
> Here's a recent thread that discussed booting from volume:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openstack/operators/25632
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Juan José Pavlik Salles <
> jjpavlik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, i should have written more details. I'm working with a Folsom
>> deploy, using Ubuntu 12.04.2 and KVM as hypervisor. Thanks!
>>
>>
>> 2013/4/11 Juan José Pavlik Salles <jjpavlik at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hi guys, i'm having some problems trying to boot an instance from a
>>> volume. I've created a bootable volume with this sentence:
>>>
>>> root at cocinero:~# cinder --os-username demo --os-tenant-name demo
>>> --os-password MyPassword create --image-id
>>> "5fd4c15d-da66-400a-ae75-7fe2feb9a257" --display-name vol_ubuntu_12_4 3
>>>
>>> That worked great, i even see the volume in dashboard. Then i tried to
>>> boot an instance, with this line:
>>>
>>> nova --os-username demo --os-tenant-name demo --os-password MyPassword
>>> boot --image "Ubuntu-12.04.02-PSI" --flavor 1 --block_device_mapping
>>> vda=e25e9112-9c82-45c2-b16e-660efd0de891:::0 prueba_boot_volumen1
>>>
>>> After executing that i go to the VNC and see:
>>>
>>> Booting from hard disk...
>>> Boot failed, not bootable disk
>>>
>>> So... something is wrong. I checked the logs while creating the volumen
>>> and i havent found anything bad.
>>>
>>> I also tried using:
>>>
>>> root at cocinero:~# nova --os-username demo --os-tenant-name demo
>>> --os-password MyPassword volume-create --image-id
>>> 5fd4c15d-da66-400a-ae75-7fe2feb9a257 --display-name volumen-booteable 3
>>>
>>> Instead of going straight to cinder.
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Thanks!!!
>>> --
>>> Pavlik Juan José
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Pavlik Juan José
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> OpenStack-operators mailing list
>> OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org
>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Joe Topjian
> Systems Administrator
> Cybera Inc.
>
> www.cybera.ca
>
> Cybera is a not-for-profit organization that works to spur and support
> innovation, for the economic benefit of Alberta, through the use
> of cyberinfrastructure.
>



-- 
Pavlik Juan José
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/attachments/20130411/b715c7b7/attachment.html>


More information about the OpenStack-operators mailing list