Hi Greg - This is not so well documented in Grizzly, but see folsom docs: http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/boot-from-volume.html to boot from a volume: nova boot --flavor <f> --block_device_mapping vda=<vol_id>:::0 test_from_vol to boot from a snapshot of a bootable volume: nova boot --flavor <f> --block_device_mapping vda=<snap_id>:snap::0 test_from_snap Bill Owen billowen at us.ibm.com Strategic Test Methods and Tools 520-799-4829, T/L 321-4829 From: Greg Chavez <greg.chavez at gmail.com> To: openstack at lists.openstack.org, Date: 08/15/2013 04:05 PM Subject: [Openstack] Booting from a volume snapshot via the CLI 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. -- \*..+.- --Greg Chavez +//..;}; _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20130815/69a8d19c/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: graycol.gif Type: image/gif Size: 105 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20130815/69a8d19c/attachment.gif>
