Re: [Openstack] Snapshotting ephemeral disks?

2012-08-17 Thread Lars Kellogg-Stedman
This is not possible. Sounds like you really want a fix for this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/914484 The fix was reverted but hopefully it can be cleaned up and come back in. That looks like it would get us where we want to be. My main goal is to have a relatively easy

Re: [Openstack] Snapshotting ephemeral disks?

2012-08-17 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
On Aug 17, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman l...@seas.harvard.edu wrote: This is not possible. Sounds like you really want a fix for this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/914484 The fix was reverted but hopefully it can be cleaned up and come back in. That looks like it

[Openstack] Snapshotting ephemeral disks?

2012-08-16 Thread Lars Kellogg-Stedman
I have a system that I've booted using a live CD image (so .../instance-ID/disk points at the ISO file). I've installed an OS onto /dev/vda (which is .../instance-ID/disk.local). Running 'nova image-create INSTANCE NAME` results in a traceback in the compute log: 2012-08-16 09:48:56 TRACE

Re: [Openstack] Snapshotting ephemeral disks?

2012-08-16 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
On Aug 16, 2012, at 6:58 AM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman l...@seas.harvard.edu wrote: I have a system that I've booted using a live CD image (so .../instance-ID/disk points at the ISO file). I've installed an OS onto /dev/vda (which is .../instance-ID/disk.local). Running 'nova image-create