The issue was addressed by remove the __del__ from the class. This was done in https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/b28530ce83302dacae90c385c5431fb1a758ef0a
** Changed in: nova Status: Triaged => Fix Committed ** Changed in: nova Status: Fix Committed => Won't Fix -- 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/1275773 Title: VMware session not logged out on VMwareAPISession garbage collection Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): Won't Fix Bug description: A bug in VMwareAPISession.__del__() prevents the session being logged out when the session object is garbage collected. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1275773/+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