On 12/02/2014 12:56 AM, Venu Murthy wrote: > Great Initiative Mark, > > In the beginning of my openstack journey, being able to ssh/connect to > the VMs/Instances was the greatest challenge. After having spent several > months to debug such issues, I've posted one of the solutions here. > http://thenewstack.io/solving-a-common-beginners-problem-when-pinging-from-an-openstack-instance/ Indeed, networking issues in guests are quite common by looking at the frequency of questions asked on https://ask.openstack.org. You can browse the most popular tags as a proxy of interesting topics: http://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/qaforums-tags.html?page=2 Venu: nice tutorial you have written. Have you considered adding it as an answer on Ask OpenStack? For example, a quite generic question like the one below would benefit from a detailed step by step tutorial like yours: https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/9183/cannot-login-ping-or-ssh-to-cirros-test-image/ > http://www.venumurthy.com/2014/07/openstack-dashboard-horizon-error.html same here :) The advantage of Ask OpenStack is that its pages show up quite high on search engines. Thanks, Stef