was available from
the nova client. E.g is there a nova restore xxx command ?Looking
through the client code I can't see one, but thought I might be missing
something.
Thanks
Phil
From: Vishvananda Ishaya [mailto:vishvana...@gmail.com]
Sent: 30 January 2013 00:32
To: Day, Phil
Cc: openstack
Hi Folks,
Does the nova client provide support to restore a soft deleted instance (and
if not, what is the process for pulling an instance back from the brink) ?
Cheers,
Phil
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Hi Folks,
I'm trying to understand the configuration required to create a durable
notification queue for billing with RabbitMQ. As I understand it for messages
to be durable there need to be three things:
- The exchange has to be created as durable
- The queue needs to be
Hi Folks,
Does anyone know if the nova-client python binding is written to be thread safe
?
We saw some odd behavour when using it with multiple threads, and before
digging deeper just thought I'd check if there were known issues, etc.
Thanks
Phil
Hi Folks,
Can anyone point me to some examples of using the flavour_access extension
please ?
I've been playing around with this in Devstack, and so far I've found that
whilst I can create a non-public flavor and add access to a specific tenant
(which I take to show that the extension is
Note this is an admin-only ability by default and can oversubscribe the
compute node the instance goes on.
It is now controlled by a policy (create:forced_host) - so if you want to
extend it to other users you can, for example, set up the policy file to
control this via a Keystone role
Phil
Hi Folks, and Happy New Year.
In working with the Filter Scheduler I'm considering an enhancement to make the
final host selection stage configurable. Whilst its sometimes fine to just
pick the first host from the list of weighted hosts, the more general case is
that I'd like to be able to
Hi All,
Can someone tell me what is expected to happen for metadata and file injection
when also specifying a config drive - For example is the metadata file
creation (/meta.js) and file injection meant to still work, or get re-directed
to the config drive (is that part of config-drive 2.0)
Hi Christian,
For a more general solution you might want to look at the code that supports
passing in -availabilty_zone=az:host (look for forced_host in
compute/api.py). Currently this is limited to admin, but I think that should
be changed to be a specific action that can be controlled by
aggregate aware.
Cheers,
Phil
From: Christian Parpart [mailto:tra...@gmail.com]
Sent: 16 October 2012 15:35
To: Day, Phil
Cc: GMI M; openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Openstack] looking for a Nova scheduler filter plugin to boot
nodes on named hosts
Hey all,
many thanks for your replies
@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Versioning for notification messages
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Eric Windisch
e...@cloudscaling.commailto:e...@cloudscaling.com wrote:
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 15:58 PM, David Ripton wrote:
On 10/09/2012 01:07 PM, Day, Phil wrote:
What do people think
-bounces+philip.day=hp@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of
David Ripton
Sent: 09 October 2012 20:59
To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Versioning for notification messages
On 10/09/2012 01:07 PM, Day, Phil wrote:
What do people think about adding a version number
Per my understanding, this shouldn't happen no matter how (fast) you create
instances since the requests are
queued and scheduler updates resource information after it processes each
request. The only possibility may cause
the problem you met that I can think of is there are more than 1
: Diego Parrilla Santamaría [mailto:diego.parrilla.santama...@gmail.com]
Sent: 10 October 2012 09:18
To: Day, Phil
Cc: David Ripton; openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Versioning for notification messages
If we want to have a notification system that could handle messages
this in the API) ?
Cheers,
Phil
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From: Eoghan Glynn [mailto:egl...@redhat.com]
Sent: 09 October 2012 17:32
To: Day, Phil
Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net; Vijaya Erukala
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Discussion / proposal: Ability to reset tenant's
quotas to default
Isn't
Hi Jon,
I believe the retry is meant to occur not just if the spawn fails, but also if
a host receives a request which it can't honour because it already has too many
VMs running or in progress of being launched.
Maybe try reducing your filters down a bit (standard_filters means all
I *think* deleted flavours used to be needed as there could still be instances
running against them and the flavour definition was used by the quota
calculations. Not sure if this is still the case, or if the data now comes
straight from the instances table.Some aspects of a flavour (e.g.
Hi Folks,
Can someone point me to where Nova uses the instance_type_projects information
to decide which flavors are and aren't available to a project please ?
I can see how the flavour_access API extension sets up entries in the table,
but I don't see anything which seems to take that into
Hi Folks,
Trying to catch-up (I'm thinking of changing my middle name to catch-up :) )
with the generalisation of host aggregates - and looking at the code it looks
to me as if the chain for adding a host to an aggregate still ends up calling
the virt layer
), but on xen systems it's still
liked to the hypervisor pools ?
Thanks
Phil
From: Joe Gordon [mailto:j...@cloudscaling.com]
Sent: 19 September 2012 19:02
To: Day, Phil
Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net (openstack@lists.launchpad.net)
(openstack@lists.launchpad.net)
Subject: Re: [Openstack
both the compute
extension and the Volume API server running.
Phil
From: Vishvananda Ishaya [mailto:vishvana...@gmail.com]
Sent: 10 September 2012 18:08
To: Day, Phil
Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net (openstack@lists.launchpad.net)
(openstack@lists.launchpad.net)
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Which
Hi Folks,
I know things are in transition right now from Nova to Cinder, but can someone
shed light on the difference between api.openstack.compute.contrib.volumes
and api.openstack.volume ?
Thanks
Phil
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Hi Folks,
I'm trying to understand the difference between display_name and hostname
in the instances table, and struggling a bit to track their use though the
code. It looks to me as if:
display_name is always the name specified by the user
hostname is a
The HPCS portal does this for you via the Nova API when the account is created
– we haven’t implemented it as a specific Nova feature.
From: openstack-bounces+philip.day=hp@lists.launchpad.net
[mailto:openstack-bounces+philip.day=hp@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of
Shake Chen
Sent: 24
Hi Folks,
Looking at the current policy.json file both falvorextraspecs and
flavorextradata are set to [], whereas flavormanage is [[rule:admin_api]]
Seems to me that all three of these should be admin_api - or am I missing
something ?
Phil
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Sorry for a dumb question, but can someone point me to where the authorization
is configured to determine who does and doesn't get access to these actions
please ?
Thanks,
Phil
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From: openstack-bounces+philip.day=hp@lists.launchpad.net
Hi Folks,
I was reviewing a code change to add generic retries for build failures (
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9540/2 ), and wanted to be sure that it
wouldn't invalidate the capacity accounting used by the scheduler.
However I've been sitting here for a while working through the Folsom
Hi Chris,
What happens to notifications to other compute servers that are generated as
side effect of VM creation a result of using the IPtables firewall driver ?
Are they somehow propagated to other Cells, or is there something that keeps
all VMs in a particular security group within a
Hi All,
I'm looking at the network bandwidth code with a view to how the current
framework could be made to work with libvirt, and a I have a couple of
questions that hopefully someone familiar with the Xen implementation can
answer:
- Do the Xen counters get reset after they are
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From: openstack-bounces+john.garbutt=eu.citrix@lists.launchpad.net
[mailto:openstack-bounces+john.garbutt=eu.citrix.com@lists.launchpad.n
et]
On Behalf Of Thierry Carrez
Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2012 10:33 AM
To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re:
Hi All,
I'm thinking it's about time we had an OpenStack User Group meeting in the UK ,
and would be interested in hearing from anyone interested in attending,
presenting, helping to organise, etc.
London would seem the obvious choice, but we could also host here in HP Bristol
if that works
Hi Folks,
Is anyone else looking at how to support images that need a password rather
than an ssh key (windows) on hypervisors that don't support set_admin_password
(e.g. libvirt) ?
Thanks
Phil
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From: John Garbutt [mailto:john.garb...@citrix.com]
Sent: 03 July 2012 16:41
To: Day, Phil; openstack@lists.launchpad.net (openstack@lists.launchpad.net)
(openstack@lists.launchpad.net)
Subject: RE: Setting VM passwords when not running on Xen
This seemed to crop up quite a lot in different
the update.
Do we have something that catalogues the various notification messages and
their payloads ?
Thanks,
Phil
-Original Message-
From: Chris Behrens [mailto:cbehr...@codestud.com]
Sent: 02 July 2012 00:14
To: Day, Phil
Cc: Jay Pipes; Huang Zhiteng; openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Rather than adding debug statements could we please add additional notification
events (for example a notification event whenever task_state changes)
Anyone that want's log file entries could then use the log_notifier, but those
that want to get information like this back into a central system
However, considering the unhappy-path for a second, is there a place
for surfacing some more context as to why the new instance unexpectedly
went into the ERROR state?
I assume the philosophy is that the API has validated the request as far and it
can, and returned any meaningful error
Hi All,
At the risk of sounding badly behind the curve once again, can someone point me
to the Blueprint that describes why we now have the compute/rcpapi layer
between compute/api and compute/manager please ?I'm guessing that its
something to do with api versioning, but a simple overview
Hi Folks,
I was looking for the full definition of the API requests, and I'm a tad
confused by what I find here:
http://api.openstack.org/
Specifically for Server Create there is both and Server - Create and Server
- Extended Create, although as far as I can see the extended create isn't
So the things to check are:
- Is the nova-compute service running ? If not the nova-compute.log
should show why its failing
- If it is running then it probably means that its getting stuck on
some long running issue (e.g as down loading an image, problems talking to
Hi Doug,
I think you missed my main point, which was that a topic exchange does
not impose a limitation that only one client can consume a given
notification. That's only true if each client is consuming from the
same queue bound to the exchange.
So just to be clear, if I understand you
what
Nova currently does to create a shared queue ?
Phil
From: Kiall Mac Innes [mailto:ki...@managedit.ie]
Sent: 09 May 2012 10:51
To: Day, Phil
Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net; Russell Bryant; Doug Hellmann
Subject: Re: [Openstack] [nova] why does notification use a topic exchange
instead
Hi Folks,
In multi-host mode the host field of a network never seems to get set (as
only IPs are allocated, not networks)
However the periodic revovery task in NetworkManager uses the host field to
filter what addresses it should consider cleaning up (to catch the case where
the message from
+1
I was looking at this area earlier in terms of how the system works out what
partition to inject keys/files/etc into, which feels like it should be
specified by image metadata but currently defaults to partition 1.
Made me wonder if we really need so many different ways for instances to get
and then write
some matching scheduler filter rules.
That's the basic idea, anyway. The exact same behavior will apply to
'cells' and the cells scheduler as well. (Except you'll have
cells_capabilities= somewhere (prob nova.conf for the cells service).
- Chris
On Apr 2, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Day, Phil
Hi Folks,
I'm looking for a capability to limit some flavours to some hosts. I want the
mapping to be as flexible as possible, and work within a zone/cell (I don't
want to add zones just to get this mapping).For example I want to express
something like:
Host_1 supports flavours A, C
...@rackspace.com
wrote:
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 22:58 +0100, Day, Phil wrote:
- As you get the tenant id from the context I assume this module has
to come after the authentication in the pipeline.
Yes, I have made that assumption. It seems reasonable, given that the
existing rate-limit
, Phil
Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net (openstack@lists.launchpad.net)
(openstack@lists.launchpad.net)
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Validation of floating IP opertaions in Essex codebase
?
On Mar 28, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Day, Phil wrote:
Hi Folks,
At the risk of looking lazy in my first question
Hi Kevin,
A couple of quick questions:
- As you get the tenant id from the context I assume this module has to come
after the authentication in the pipeline. Have you thought about using the
tenant_id in the URL instead ? (I'm thinking of the case where you want rate
limit requests into
Hi Stackers,
In Diablo there is a bunch of validation that goes on in the network/api layer,
for example when associating an IP to an instance there are checks for:
- Is the address allocated
- Is it allocated to this project
- Is it already assigned to an
Are you sure that its Nova that is taking the time to associate the IP, and not
an ARP issue in your network ?
I've seen this behaviour when quickly reusing floating IP addresses - Nova does
the assignment and sends out an unsolicited ARP response (assuming you have the
send_arp_for_ha flag
Here’s the way we’ve approached this:
- A user can always send a delete request for a VM in any state (this
is the only action that is always allowed).
- Once a VM has a task_state of “Deleting” (set in the API server) the
only action they can perform is delete
o Hence at
+1
And make the whole combine quota/limits module pluggable - so that all of
these per-user configuration items can be managed in a central system (e.g
keystone)
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From: openstack-bounces+philip.day=hp@lists.launchpad.net
On 03/19/2012 10:42 AM, Mark Washenberger wrote:
Out of curiosity, why prefer keystone for centrally managing quota groups
rather than an admin api in nova? From my perspective, a nova admin api
would save a data migration and preserve nova-manage backwards compatibility.
Because more
Compute/api sets the task state to deleting at the start of delete() but
without updating the vm_state, so if these were VMs that failed to build, or
were deleted during the build, then you could get that combination.
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From:
VM.
Phil
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From: Yun Mao [mailto:yun...@gmail.com]
Sent: 02 March 2012 20:32
To: Day, Phil
Cc: Chris Behrens; Joshua Harlow; openstack
Subject: Re: [Openstack] eventlet weirdness
Hi Phil, I'm a little confused. To what extend does sleep(0) help?
It only gives
forward in my
perception.
Phil
-Original Message-
From: Yun Mao [mailto:yun...@gmail.com]
Sent: 03 March 2012 01:11
To: Day, Phil
Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Openstack] eventlet weirdness
First I agree that having blocking DB calls is no big deal given the way Nova
-
From: openstack-bounces+philip.day=hp@lists.launchpad.net
[mailto:openstack-bounces+philip.day=hp@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of
Jay Pipes
Sent: 02 March 2012 15:17
To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Openstack] eventlet weirdness
On 03/02/2012 05:34 AM, Day, Phil wrote
March 2012 19:23
To: Day, Phil; Chris Behrens
Cc: openstack
Subject: Re: [Openstack] eventlet weirdness
So a thought I had was that say if the design of a component forces as part of
its design the ability to be ran with threads or with eventlet or with
processes.
Say if u break everything up
Has there been any thinking around only using eventlet/greenlet for webserver
endpoints and using something like multiprocessing for everything else?
I was already beginning to think that this would be a good blueprint/discussion
topic for the design summit ;-)
We've seen a number of issues
OK - I'll put a description into lanchpad along with our notes on how we're
proposing to fix this on our Diablo branch (as there is a performance related
change in here as well)
As with the previous performance change it will take us some time to get an
Essex compatible fix - but if I provide
Hi Soren,
Thanks for the insight, a few questions / comments:
1 deal with the situation where a refresh call to one of the compute
nodes got lost. If that happened, at least it would all get sorted
out on the next refresh.
Can see the advantage of this, but on an active system this can
Hi Folks,
I have a half remembered conversation from the Boston summit where someone said
that there was a security issue in using qcow2 as a format for creating
snapshot images.
Does that ring any bells with anyone, and if so can you expand on the potential
issue please ?
I think it was
Am I the only one that sees a mispronunciation issue with Fawnskin ?
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From: openstack-bounces+philip.day=hp@lists.launchpad.net
[mailto:openstack-bounces+philip.day=hp@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of
Thierry Carrez
Sent: 12 January 2012 09:35
To:
Hi Folks,
Is there a file that can be used to configure the API rate limits for the OS
API on a per user basis ?
I can see where the default values are set in the code, but it looks as if
there should be a less brutal configuration mechanism to go along with this ?
Thanks
Phil
Hi Folks,
I seem to remember a discussion in Boston that identified a need to be able to
group compute servers within a zone by attributes that would be significant
to the scheduler - for example a group of servers which share a storage pool,
etc.
But I can't see any blueprint following on
to fixing the issue in Diablo.Final vs the backport of DB
simplification changes from Essex - which I'm assuming will take some tiem yet
to work through all of the joinedloads.
Phil
From: Vishvananda Ishaya [mailto:vishvana...@gmail.com]
Sent: 31 October 2011 19:50
To: Day, Phil
Cc: openstack
Hi Folks,
We've been looking into a problem which looks a lot like:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/855660
2011-10-21 14:13:31,035 ERROR nova.api [5bd52130-d46f-4702-b06b-9ca5045473d7
smokeuser smokeproject] Unexpected error raised: Parent instance FixedIp at
0x4e74490 is not bound to
Hi Folks,
The title says it all really - is there an OSAPI / nova-client equivalent to
the EC2 command to get the console output of a VM ?(I can't see anything in
the code or extensions which calls the relevant compute.api method)
If there's nothing at the moment are there any plans for
if fine ;-)
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From: Chris Behrens [mailto:chris.behr...@rackspace.com]
Sent: 21 October 2011 20:42
To: Jake Dahn
Cc: Chris Behrens; Day, Phil; openstack@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Openstack] OSAPI equivalent of euca-get-console-output ?
Ah, I see. consoles.py
Hi Folks,
Can anyone point me towards some documentation on how to use the Configuration
Drive feature - in particular does it have its own API, or is passed as
attributes to Create Server ?
Thanks,
Phil
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HI Folks,
Looking through the code it looks as if all of the changes to support the
multi_host Network model have been made in the NetworkManager base class - so
although I've only seen a description of this being used in Flat networks I
wondered if anyone has tried it in VLAN mode (or knows
Looks pretty good. It's worth mentioning that some (many?) of the
tables that deal with Identity information are being removed because
they duplicate data in Keystone. So, tables like User, AuthToken,
Project, UserRoleAssociation, UserProjectAssociation and
UserProjectRoleAssociation may
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