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[Sean Dague <sean@xxxxxxxxx>]

This wishlist bug has been open a year without any activity. I'm going
to move it to "Opinion / Wishlist", which is an easily-obtainable queue
of older requests that have come on. This bug can be reopened (set back
to "New") if someone decides to work on this.

** Changed in: nova
       Status: Confirmed => Opinion

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/836973

Title:
  nova should keep instance data after termination

Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
  Opinion

Bug description:
  On EC2, instances are available in DescribeInstances output afer they're terminated.
  In nova, at the moment, they disappear immediately.  This makes getting "shutdown" console output just about impossible.

  Relevant link to amazon ec2 documentation:
  http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/DeveloperGuide/index.html?instance-console.html
  "Only the most recent 64 KB of posted output is stored, which is available for at least 1 hour after the last posting."

  
  $ euca-run-instances --key mykey ami-00000056
  RESERVATION	r-227nsegw	smoser_project	default
  INSTANCE	i-00000200	ami-00000056			scheduling	mykey	0		m1.small	2011-08-29T20:11:09Z	unknown zone	aki-00000052	ari-00000053
  $ euca-get-console-output i-00000201 | tail -n 5
  ec2: 1024 83:c3:7a:9b:42:fc:0d:c5:48:96:bd:46:62:25:bf:34 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub (DSA)
  ec2: -----END SSH HOST KEY FINGERPRINTS-----
  ec2: #############################################################
  landscape-client is not configured, please run landscape-config.

  $ euca-terminate-instances i-00000201
  #no output

  # wait 10 seconds or so
  $ euca-describe-instances i-00000201
  #no output
  $ echo $?
  0

  $ euca-get-console-output i-00000201
  InstanceNotFound: Instance %(instance_id)s could not be found.

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