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Re: booting from volume
hi, i can't find this file 'euca2ools/commands/eucacommand.py',i have get the latest euca2ools, latest boto and that patch. can you give me a hand?
I'm grateful for your contribution to the boot-from-volume development.When can I use the 'boot-from-volume' in a production environment?
Looking forward to receiving your reply
At 2011-04-17 00:48:49,"Isaku Yamahata" <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi. I've implemented the basic support for boot from volume
>and uploaded lp:~yamahata/nova/boot-from-volume
>blue print:
>https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/boot-from-volume
>Adam Johnson, do you have any progress?
>
>With the patches, VM can boot with a attached partion based on volume
>(including root partition). For example,
>euca-run-instances ami-XXXX -k mykey -t m1.tiny \
> --block-device-mapping /dev/vda=vol-00000001::false \
> --block-device-mapping /dev/vdb=vol-00000002::false
>
>Although EBS manual syas that snapshot should be specified to,
>I chose to volume id because creating snapshot/volume from snapshot/volume
>isn't supported yet. They are proposed as
>https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/snapshot-volume
>https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/clone-volume
>
>My next step is to add ephemeral device and no device support
>and ami support. Comments?
>
>thanks,
>
>Note:
>For --block-device-mapping options support,
>you need latest euca2ools, latest boto which requires python 2.7 or later
>and the following patch
>
>--- euca2ools/commands/eucacommand.py 2011-04-11 13:23:49 +0000
>+++ euca2ools/commands/eucacommand.py 2011-04-16 02:11:12 +0000
>@@ -571,19 +571,23 @@
> return file_path
>
> def parse_block_device_args(self, block_device_maps_args):
>- block_device_map = BlockDeviceMapping()
>+ block_device_map = boto.ec2.blockdevicemapping.BlockDeviceMapping()
> for block_device_map_arg in block_device_maps_args:
> parts = block_device_map_arg.split('=')
> if len(parts) > 1:
> device_name = parts[0]
>- block_dev_type = BlockDeviceType()
>+ block_dev_type = boto.ec2.blockdevicemapping.BlockDeviceType()
> value_parts = parts[1].split(':')
> if value_parts[0].startswith('snap'):
> block_dev_type.snapshot_id = value_parts[0]
>+ elif value_parts[0].startswith('vol-'):
>+ # openstack doesn't support volume snapshot at the moment
>+ # So use volume for now instead of snapshot
>+ block_dev_type.snapshot_id = value_parts[0]
> else:
> if value_parts[0].startswith('ephemeral'):
> block_dev_type.ephemeral_name = value_parts[0]
>- if len(value_parts) > 1:
>+ if len(value_parts) > 1 and value_parts[1] != '':
> block_dev_type.size = int(value_parts[1])
> if len(value_parts) > 2:
> if value_parts[2] == 'true':
>
>
>
>--
>yamahata
>
>
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