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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 26, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Sina Sadeghi <sina@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi again list,
> 
> I am wondering why the dashboard UI around booting from volume is setup the way it is?
> 
> Currently the user is presented with an "Instance source:" pulldown menu when they want to launch an instance. Only Image and Snapshot are present in this list. A user must go to the volume tab and specify "boot from volume" there. However, if the user does not also specify an image or snapshot, then the error 
> 
> "Please select an option for the instance source." 
> 
> is presented to the user. 
> 
> Shouldn't the "Instance source:" pulldown menu have a Volume list item so this error doesn't occur?

This would definitely make more sense. Unfortunately image id is still required even when booting from volume. There is some work being done to fix this for grizzly, so hopefully soon that will be an option. There is a bit of additional work needed around the ux of booting from a volume. It would be nice if the ui offered an option to select an image and have it copied to a volume automatically for you at boot time, but there are still a few blockers before that works cleanly.

Vish