Unless there are other details, this is working as designed. If you don't specify security groups, you get the default security group rules (which could be empty for your tenant if not configured yet).
Are you using neutron or nova-network? There are issues when using neutron and a neutron backend that doesn't support port security where it doesn't make sense for nova to tell it to use the default security group, since the neutron backend won't honor it anyway, see: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/173204/ ** Changed in: nova Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1517841 Title: nova cannot create vm with security_group [] Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Invalid Bug description: I want to create nova vm with security_group [] in kilo nova boot only has --security-groups option, without ---no-security- groups When I create vm without --security-groups option, the security- groups of vm is 'default' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1517841/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
