Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][cinder] Should we allow this kind of action?

2015-07-26 Thread hao wang
I wonder why user need to use this kind of image(vm snapshot) to create volume, and then use this volume to create a vm again. It's meaningless I think. On the other hand, if an image size is zero, cinder shouldn't allow to create this volume from image. 2015-07-27 9:39 GMT+08:00 Zhenyu Zheng

[openstack-dev] [nova][cinder] Should we allow this kind of action?

2015-07-26 Thread Zhenyu Zheng
Hi all, Recently, I've been asked to perform this kind of action using OpenStack: 1. Launch an volume-backended instance. 2. Take a snapshot of this instance using nova image-create, an image will be added in glance, the size is zero, and the BDM will be saved in it's metadata. 3. Create an