Re: [Openstack] Stderr: qemu-nbd: Failed to bdrv_open when attempting to boot from cinder volume

2013-05-03 Thread Mark Lehrer
After loading nbd module in compute node, I continued trying to boot from a bootable cinder volume but this is what I see in nova-compute.log. I am not using Cinder so maybe this isn't an option for you, but my recommendation is to blacklist the nbd module altogether, and remove the nbd

Re: [Openstack] launching multiple VMs takes very long time

2013-05-01 Thread Mark Lehrer
where should I start looking to find out why things are so slow? Check the glance node. The first prototype I set up had an incredibly slow glance node, which led to this kind of behavior. Are the compute nodes downloading at the same time, or sequentially? Mark

Re: [Openstack] Grizzly official packages

2013-04-09 Thread Mark Lehrer
Is it safe to downgrade to a previous Ubuntu version? Can someone point a good tutorial on how to do it properly? Theoretically possible, but probably not worth the effort. I would suggest reinstalling with 12.04 and then move over the configs and data. Mark

Re: [Openstack] Questions about Openstack deployment

2013-04-08 Thread Mark Lehrer
Is it possible to have fedora 18 controller and debian wheezy compute nodes? Masochistic but possible. Ubuntu does the best job of packaging, that is what I used for my test system (even though I loathe ubuntu server). For Grizzly I am going to see if there are good repos for el6. Is it

Re: [Openstack] error when trying to start glance api

2013-04-03 Thread Mark Lehrer
glance.openstack.common.cfg.ConfigFilesNotFoundError: Failed to read some config files: /etc/glance/glance-api.conf What are the permissions on this file? The glance user will need to be able to read it. Mark ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Openstack] private cloud

2013-03-28 Thread Mark Lehrer
Could i Have a complete configuration for openstack running in local? (private cloud) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=openstack+easy+install I used the Hastexo guide and it was pretty easy. Mark ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to

Re: [Openstack] Network layout/planning for HA

2013-03-22 Thread Mark Lehrer
Quantum seems out because it looks like it requires 3 NICs. I initially You can just use VLAN tagging for this. Personally, unless I have a reason not to, I bond 2 nics using 802.3ad and then tag the bond to however many VLANs I need. If you are new to doing this on Linux it will take a

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack] How to speed up the instance launch time?

2013-03-06 Thread Mark Lehrer
are make in the compute node. So all this takes long an dis proportional to the image size. Is there any way to speed up this process? Is a SAN based backend the only way to go? No, but if you have multiple compute nodes you will want to have them all share /var/lib/nova/instances on a fast

Re: [Openstack] How to create a Image which can extend the partition automatically.

2013-03-06 Thread Mark Lehrer
but the resize2fs tools is not working and raise following error $ resize2fs rhel6.3-x86_64.img You will probably want to have a firstboot kind of script that does this from inside the VM. resize2fs can run while the VM is live but you may have to reboot after running growpart before you

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack] How to speed up the instance launch time?

2013-03-06 Thread Mark Lehrer
The change I made that helped the most was to disable NBD. You have Was that to disable injection at startup? No, NBD is just slow and unreliable for some reason. Disabling it made my users happy. I haven't had time to find out why NBD is so horrible. Eventually I would like to see

Re: [Openstack] external dhcp server instead of dnsmasq

2013-02-19 Thread Mark Lehrer
Or is there any way in openstack i can implement dynamic dns in openstack. If you want your VM's to automatically get a DNS entry, I have a MyDNS add-on that can do it. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a database instead of zone files. You just have to pick a domain or subdomain, and then

Re: [Openstack] NFS + RDMA == stuck at Booting from hard disk

2013-02-05 Thread Mark Lehrer
Has anyone here been able to make Openstack + KVM work with Infiniband NFS-RDMA? I finally found the solution to this and wanted to pass it along. RDMA does not work with cache=none. There is an auto-detect routine deep within the python code that is supposed to switch this to writeback,

[Openstack] NFS + RDMA == stuck at Booting from hard disk

2013-01-10 Thread Mark Lehrer
Has anyone here been able to make Openstack + KVM work with Infiniband NFS-RDMA? I have spent a couple of days here trying to make it work, but with no luck. At first I thought the problem was NFS3 and lockd, but I tried NFSv4 and I have the same problem. I also disabled AppArmor just as