Re: [Openstack] Suspend/Stop VM

2012-07-30 Thread Pengjun Pan
I never tried to stop a VM using api. But run a nova help, it has pause, reboot, resume, etc. To bypass nova api, you can use virsh to stop instances. Do a sudo virsh list --all, it will list all the running instances even if nova cannot see it for some reason. And then you can kill all the ghost

Re: [Openstack] Suspend/Stop VM

2012-07-30 Thread George Reese
Thanks, but I am looking for how this is done via API. -George On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Pengjun Pan panpeng...@gmail.com wrote: I never tried to stop a VM using api. But run a nova help, it has pause, reboot, resume, etc. To bypass nova api, you can use virsh to stop instances. Do a

Re: [Openstack] Suspend/Stop VM

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Moseley
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:50 AM, George Reese george.re...@enstratus.com wrote: I must be missing something, but I can't find any docs on how to suspend or stop a VM via API. Any pointers, please? :) I think this works (see http://api.openstack.org/) but haven't tested it in a while: Stop:

Re: [Openstack] Suspend/Stop VM

2012-07-30 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 10:50 -0500, George Reese wrote: I must be missing something, but I can't find any docs on how to suspend or stop a VM via API. Any pointers, please? :) Try 'nova --debug pause $instance' Shows e.g. POST /v2/$tenant/servers/$instance/action HTTP/1.1 Host:

Re: [Openstack] Suspend/Stop VM

2012-07-30 Thread Eric Windisch
I'm not sure where the actions are documented, but you can infer them from here: https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/blob/master/novaclient/v1_1/servers.py Below, I've pasted a few of the methods related to this thread. These are POST'ed to the action URI, as Mark suggested.

Re: [Openstack] Suspend/Stop VM

2012-07-30 Thread Anne Gentle
As I noted on Twitter, there's an open doc bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1029560 noting this gap. Thanks George for clicking through to say it impacts you. I'm sending a second email to the mailing list next to discuss this unfortunate gap in reality in the API docs,

Re: [Openstack] Suspend/Stop VM

2012-07-30 Thread George Reese
Thanks, this bit is perfect. -George On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Eric Windisch e...@cloudscaling.com wrote: I'm not sure where the actions are documented, but you can infer them from here: https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/blob/master/novaclient/v1_1/servers.py Below, I've