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[Martin Packman <martin.packman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/07/2012, Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is only due to the asinine EC2 API -- or rather the asinine
> implementation in EC2 that doesn't create an instance ID before the
> instance is launched.

So, I'm curious, how do you allocate a server id in advance using the
openstack api so you can pass it in rather than relying on an external
metadata service? I've not seen anything in the documentation
describing how to do that.

Martin