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[Anthony Young <sleepsonthefloor@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Tomoe Sugihara <tomoe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Could someone tell me what is the right way to do boot-from-volume?
> Especially, how to create boot-from-volume capable image and volume?
> My understanding is that, since openstack API requires imageRef, we
> need to pass in both image and volume ids.
>

I was actually playing with this today, and just put up a review that adds
a devstack exercise to create and launch a bootable volume.  It is true
that --image is still required when booting from a volume - I have not
investigated yet if that is a bug or a consequence of how boot-from-volume
is implemented as an extension (which still may fall into the bug category).

https://review.openstack.org/4044


> I thought that create_image in EC2 API would be the one and tried, but
> it's totally broken now:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/923546
> And, I didn't find equivalent code in OpenStack API.


> I'd appreciate any help on this and I'd be happy to help debug the issue.
>

Hopefully the code above will give you some direction to get started.  My
experience thus far is that the end-to-end experience of using this feature
needs some work, so I'll probably file some bugs and patches while I muck
with it.  So it would be great if you took a look and did the same:)

Anthony


> Cheers,
> Tomoe
>
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