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[Oleg Gelbukh <ogelbukh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gabriel,

There is a folsom-targeted blueprint for #2 at least:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/auto-create-boot-volumes

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Oleg

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Gabriel Hurley
<Gabriel.Hurley@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  To the best of my understanding there are two parts to this, neither of
> which is fully where it ought to be:****
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> **1.       **It shouldn’t be a required parameter. If you give it a
> volume with everything it needs and not an image it should try to boot from
> that without throwing an exception. Horizon only enforces the requirement
> because Nova does.****
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> **2.       **As an optional parameter, specifying an image should allow
> you to create the instance with that image loaded onto the volume, which is
> a very important part of the workflow for creating your own bootable
> volumes. This feature doesn’t currently exist in Nova, however.****
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> I also don’t know offhand if there are blueprints or bug reports for
> either of those…****
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> **-          **Gabriel****
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> *From:* openstack-bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx[mailto:
> openstack-bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Vishvananda Ishaya
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 26, 2012 8:35 PM
> *To:* Lorin Hochstein
> *Cc:* openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Why is an image required when booting from
> volume****
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> If there is a separate kernel and ramdisk needed for the boot from volume,
> it is pulled from image properties.  Otherwise it is basically useless.***
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> Vish****
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> On May 26, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Lorin Hochstein wrote:****
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> I'm trying to figure out boot from volume, both so I can use it and so I
> can add it to the docs. ****
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>  It seems that when calling "nova boot" or using Horizon, you need to
> specify an image. Why is that?****
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> I naively tried to create a volume image by creating a volume and then
> doing on my volume server:****
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> dd if=/tmp/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img
> of=/dev/nova-volumes/volume-0000000d****
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> Then I tried this:****
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> $ nova boot --flavor 2 --key_name lorin --block_device_mapping
> /dev/vda=13:::0 test****
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> Which generated an error:****
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> Invalid imageRef provided. (HTTP 400)****
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> If I try to specify an image, it at least attempts to boot:****
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> $ nova boot --flavor 2 --key_name lorin --block_device_mapping
> /dev/vda=13:::0 --image 7d6923d9-1c13-4405-ba0c-41c7487dd6bc test****
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> I noticed that the devstack example specifies an image:
> https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack/blob/master/exercises/boot_from_volume.sh
> :****
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> VOL_VM_UUID=`nova boot --flavor $INSTANCE_TYPE --image $IMAGE
> --block_device_mapping vda=$VOLUME_ID:::0 --security_groups=$SECGROUP
> --key_name $KEY_NAME $VOL_INSTANCE_NAME | grep ' id ' | get_field 2`****
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> Looking at nova/api/openstack/compute/servers.py, it does look
> like _image_uuid_from_href() is called regardless of whether we are booting
> from volume or not. What is "--image" used for when booting from volume?**
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> Take care,****
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> Lorin****
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> --****
>
> Lorin Hochstein****
>
> Lead Architect - Cloud Services****
>
> Nimbis Services, Inc.****
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> www.nimbisservices.com****
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