Re: [Openstack-qa-team] Getting rid of bad vms

2012-02-01 Thread Daryl Walleck
Yeah, this a bit of a troublesome problem. Unfortunately, it depends on your exact situation. If you have instances stuck in a state such as build, rebuild, or resize, you can manually change the instance's status by updating the vm_state field in the instances table to active and then trying to

[Openstack-qa-team] Getting rid of bad vms

2012-02-01 Thread David Kranz
Due to some bugs in nova it can happen that a vm fails to start and, due to another bug, 'nova delete' will not delete it. There was a mention somewhere that you have to manually remove it from the database but I am not sure exactly what command will do that. Can some one help me out? -David