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[Lloyd Dewolf <lloydostack@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Deepak A.P <swift007.deepak@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> Hi ,
>
>      i have a list of instances created using the below command
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>      nova boot myInstance --image 0e2f43a8-e614-48ff-92bd-be0c68da19f4
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>        --flavor 2 --key_name openstack
>
>
>        i ran the below command to check the status of instances
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>
>     nova list
>
>
> all the instances show status as  "*BUILD*" , how to se the status of the image to
>
> "ACTIVE " , i tried rebooting the instance am getting the below error
>
>
Once the instance finishes building then it will be in the "active" state.
Depending on the image, flavor and configuration starting an instance can
take a long time. I would suggest first trying with a small image like
Cirrus and using a "tiny" flavor.
http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/starting-images.html

Hope that helps,
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