Just a heads up. There are a few bugs in that area that have been fixed in Grizzly, and are not yet backported to Folsom stable. Things like deleting the root volume after terminating a boot from volume instance.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 10:35 AM > To: Vishvananda Ishaya > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Volume booting and HVM > > Thank you very much Vishvananda!!!! > > Best regards, > > El 22/10/2012, a las 18:53, Vishvananda Ishaya <[email protected]> > escribió: > > > 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-f > > rom-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 > <[email protected]> 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 : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
