Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][cinder] reason(s) for not booting instances from (bootable) volumes

2016-09-30 Thread Matthew Booth
Nothing architectural that I can think of, we just don't support it. Rebuild current takes an image, but I guess it could reasonable take most of the arguments to spawn. We'd have to think hard about what it meant for arguments to be present/omitted, i.e. are we specifying new disks, or redefining

[openstack-dev] [nova][cinder] reason(s) for not booting instances from (bootable) volumes

2016-09-30 Thread Tikkanen, Viktor (Nokia - FI/Espoo)
Hi! I refer here to my question sent earlier to AskOpenstack: https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/97425/why-it-is-not-possible-to-rebuild-an-instance-from-a-bootable-volume/ Are there some (architectural, performance, security etc.) reasons why rebuilding instances from (bootable) volumes is