You can upload your custom kernel/rootdisk pair to glance and use the rootdisk uuid to boot an instance. http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/cli_manage_images.html From: sonia verma [mailto:soniaverma9727 at gmail.com] Sent: 13 May 2014 06:33 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); openstack at lists.openstack.org Subject: [openstack-dev] booting VM with customized kernel and rootfs image Hi all I have installed openstack using devstack.I'm able able to boot VM from the opebstack dashboard onto the compute node. Now i need to boot VM from the openstack dashboard(controller node) onto compute node using customized kernel imae and rootfs. Therefore my question is whether can we boot VM from controller node onto compute node using the customized kernel and rootfs image. Please help regarding this. Thanks Sonia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20140513/5f09057b/attachment.html>