Re: [Openstack] Cinder volume as root in Grizzly?

2013-03-11 Thread Logan McNaughton
Oh great! I didn't realize you can create a cinder volume from an image. So can I pass cinder a QCOW2 image, then boot from that volume? On Mar 11, 2013 7:16 PM, "Vishvananda Ishaya" wrote: > Not exactly, although you can do something similar in both folsom and > grizzly. If you have a volume sna

Re: [Openstack] Cinder volume as root in Grizzly?

2013-03-11 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
Not exactly, although you can do something similar in both folsom and grizzly. If you have a volume snapshot you can pass it in the block_device_mapping when you boot an instance and nova will automatically create a volume from the snapshot and boot from it. If you also set delete_on_terminate t

[Openstack] Cinder volume as root in Grizzly?

2013-03-11 Thread Logan McNaughton
Will Grizzly support specifying an empty Cinder volume as an instance's root device? Right now you need to setup the volume before hand and you can "boot from volume". But will there be support similar to AWS EBS-backed instances in Grizzly? ___ Mailing