Yep, what Vish said. Everything about the current Boot From Volume UI is driven 
by contraints from Nova which the Nova core team is aware of and is working to 
fix. I will certainly not argue that the current UX in Horizon around it is any 
good at all. Look for improvements in the late G or H timeframe.


-          Gabriel

From: [email protected] 
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Behalf Of Vishvananda Ishaya
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 8:24 AM
To: Sina Sadeghi
Cc: openstack
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Dashboard boot from volume question


On Nov 26, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Sina Sadeghi 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


Hi again list,

I am wondering why the dashboard UI around booting from volume is setup the way 
it is?

Currently the user is presented with an "Instance source:" pulldown menu when 
they want to launch an instance. Only Image and Snapshot are present in this 
list. A user must go to the volume tab and specify "boot from volume" there. 
However, if the user does not also specify an image or snapshot, then the error

"Please select an option for the instance source."

is presented to the user.

Shouldn't the "Instance source:" pulldown menu have a Volume list item so this 
error doesn't occur?

This would definitely make more sense. Unfortunately image id is still required 
even when booting from volume. There is some work being done to fix this for 
grizzly, so hopefully soon that will be an option. There is a bit of additional 
work needed around the ux of booting from a volume. It would be nice if the ui 
offered an option to select an image and have it copied to a volume 
automatically for you at boot time, but there are still a few blockers before 
that works cleanly.

Vish

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