The ability to clone an image to a volume was only recently added to cinder, so there is no automatic clone on boot in horizon yet. You will have to manually create a volume from an image and then boot from it.
For older versions of openstack, the instructions are here: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/boot-from-volume.html In folsom you can skip the mount and copy step and just create a volume directly from an image: IMAGE_ID=f4addd24-4e8a-46bb-b15d-fae2591f1a35 cinder create --image-id $IMAGE_ID --display-name my-volume 10 VOLUME_ID=<uuid from above command> $ nova boot --image $IMAGE_ID --flavor 2 --key_name mykey --block_device_mapping vda=$VOLUME_ID boot-from-vol-test Vish On Oct 22, 2012, at 4:02 AM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre <ego...@ramattack.net> wrote: > Good morning, > > I have noticed I was confused about the volume concept and booting from > volume. I was thinking, when I clicked in Horizon "boot from volume" AND > selected an HVM image (located at glance) that image was being dumped to the > volume, and following times that volume would be able to boot by it's own. > But have seen when I terminate de instance I'm not getting my purpose and I'm > not able to later boot from that volume with preserved changes (configs and > so)…. How could I manage for getting my goal??. We're used to use the vms > with XenCenter and then I was able to stop a vm and later to boot it. I'm > looking for a similar manner with Openstack. I though I was get my goal by > selecting booting from volume AND launching and image…. > > Any help would be very appreciated, > Best regards > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
