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On 01/09/2014 12:41 PM, Rafael Gomes wrote:
> Hi everyone, Sorry for bother you again. But now I have a question about
> metadata service when I launch a VM. 
> 
> The openstack instalation use a neutron to network and metadata service. I can
> launch a VM (image cirros), ping and access via ssh to VM. But when I try, from
> my VM, this curl 169.254.169.254:8775 I received this answer: couldn't connect
> to host

Metadata requests from VMs should be sent on the "regular" http port, 80.

Neutron uses a proxy process inside the router namespace that intercepts these
requests, sends them to an agent, who finally contacts the Nova api server on
port 8775.  VMs don't have direct access to that.

-Brian