Closing this bug since the help message in python-novaclient was updated to reflect the actual behaviour.
Before: "Unique ID (integer or UUID) for the new flavor. If specifying 'auto', a UUID will be generated as ID." After: "Unique ID of the new flavor. Specifying 'auto' will generated a UUID for the ID." https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/python- novaclient/commit/?id=d10486f064630bb04d0e084df456514770e62160 ** Changed in: nova Status: In Progress => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1426806 Title: flavor created successfully when flavorid neither integer nor UUID Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Invalid Bug description: version: 2014.1 icehouse-stable # nova help flavor-create ... <id> Unique ID (integer or UUID) for the new flavor. If specifying 'auto', a UUID will be generated as id ... "id" should be integer or UUID. But when the "id" was set to non-integer or non-UUID, the flavor was also created successfully. # nova flavor-create flv-testdddfasdfsfdsfdsf jljdfsfojgnngllllllll 512 1 1 +-----------------------+--------------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+ | ID | Name | Memory_MB | Disk | Ephemeral | Swap | VCPUs | RXTX_Factor | Is_Public | +-----------------------+--------------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+ | jljdfsfojgnngllllllll | flv-testdddfasdfsfdsfdsf | 512 | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 1.0 | True | +-----------------------+--------------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1426806/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp