[Openstack] How to recover my vms after devstack was unstacked?

James Penick penick at yahoo-inc.com
Wed Apr 23 20:28:32 UTC 2014


James¹s suggestion about guestfs should be easier. Just use libguestfs to
mount the image and pull your data out. That way you don¹t need to bother
booting the VM and SCPing stuff out.

:)=






On 4/23/14, 1:04 PM, "Michael Monette" <mmonette at 2keys.ca> wrote:

>I appreciate all your replies.
>
>I realize that yes I have the images sitting in the flance folder.. I
>could just load up the XML and launch em with virt manager. This will
>definitely help me out, thanks a lot guys.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "James Downs" <egon at egon.cc>
>To: "Michael Monette" <mmonette at 2keys.ca>
>Cc: openstack at lists.openstack.org
>Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 1:07:20 PM
>Subject: Re: [Openstack] How to recover my vms after devstack was
>unstacked?
>
>
>On Apr 23, 2014, at 9:04 AM, Michael Monette <mmonette at 2keys.ca> wrote:
>
>> I'm locked out of horizon right now and I don't really care about
>>making openstack work. I just need to bring up the vms to pul off some
>>data. (postgres database). Then I can get rid of all the vms
>
>If you really just need some data, guestfish might be the way to go. That
>way you can just extract the files you need, and you don¹t run the risk
>of any number of bad things happening to the VM.
>
>Cheers,
>-j
>
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