Re: [Openstack] Gerrit minimum review time frame

2012-03-12 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 17:57 -0500, Josh Kearney wrote: > Is this is really a problem that needs solving? I'd like to believe that no > member of Nova Core would approve something that they aren't familiar with. I think the issue is more a case of allowing some time for other reviewers to come alon

Re: [Openstack] XENAPI_PLUGIN_FAILURE with kronos

2012-03-12 Thread Dan Wendlandt
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > Also, my understanding of Quantum is that it's for Openstack + KVM, and > that XCP doesn't need it, as the xcp-networkd will do the vFlows work by > itself. Am I right? How does it work? > As an FYI, there's nothing KVM-specific about

Re: [Openstack] XENAPI_PLUGIN_FAILURE with kronos

2012-03-12 Thread Renuka Apte
You need to install the xenapi plugins: If you are using devstack (https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack), the code below from build_domU.sh does this for you. # Checkout nova if [ ! -d $TOP_DIR/nova ]; then env GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true git clone $NOVA_REPO cd $TOP_DIR/nova git chec

Re: [Openstack] Notifiers

2012-03-12 Thread Swaminathan Venkataraman
Hi, I'd be happy to take a stab at that. I guess, the process would be to move the code that we have in glance to openstack-common and change glance accordingly. I would then have to modify nova to use code in openstack-common. Let mek know. thanks, Venkat On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Monsyne

Re: [Openstack] Notifiers

2012-03-12 Thread Monsyne Dragon
On Mar 12, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > On 03/12/2012 11:56 AM, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012, Jay Pipes wrote: >>> On 03/12/2012 09:33 AM, Swaminathan Venkataraman wrote: I've been playing around with openstack for a month now and was looking to see how I ca

Re: [Openstack] Random libvirt hangs

2012-03-12 Thread Justin Santa Barbara
I just today was able to diagnose a libvirt hang. It appears to be (similar to) a known bug in libvirt, likely fixed in the latest Fedora, but it does not appear to be fixed in Ubuntu Oneirc; I think the fix is in Precise: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/953656 I believe this is the upstream

Re: [Openstack] Help on Quantum installation through DevStack (openvswitch error) !!

2012-03-12 Thread Piyanai Saowarattitada
Hi Hitesh, > Setting up openvswitch-switch (1.2.0-1ubuntu3) ... > FATAL: Module openvswitch_mod not found. > * Inserting openvswitch module > * not removing bridge module because bridges exist (br100 virbr0) I interpret this as that the attempt to remove (Linux) "bridge" kernel module was made,

Re: [Openstack] cfg usage - option registration, global objects

2012-03-12 Thread Adam Young
Also, these global objects force us to do a bunch of hacks in unit tests. We need to do tricks to ensure the object is initialized as we want. We also need to save and restore its state between runs. I don't agree with the statement that they force "a bunch of hacks,"

Re: [Openstack] cfg usage - option registration, global objects

2012-03-12 Thread Joseph Heck
I personally don't have a huge preference one way or the other. I've used a global object for configuration in applications, and find it immensely convenient, and the methods that Mark (and others) have put into the openstack/common/cfg seem pretty amenable to adding on options as needed - top

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack Foundation] Foundation Structure: An Alternative

2012-03-12 Thread Sean Roberts
Ah, right. You are referring to a more parliamentary structure, where the membership of the board would be based on annual schedule and if a vote of no confidence is taken. I guess that could work, if that was what you meant. I would want a minimum of 6 months or so term as to keep the board fro

Re: [Openstack] Gerrit minimum review time frame

2012-03-12 Thread Josh Kearney
Is this is really a problem that needs solving? I'd like to believe that no member of Nova Core would approve something that they aren't familiar with. IMHO, we should be making better attempts at not letting branches sit around for days/weeks at a time. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Joe Gordo

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack Foundation] Foundation Structure: An Alternative

2012-03-12 Thread Joshua McKenty
I'm on the look-out for emergent points of consensus, and I think I see one - Sean, you highlighted a 12-member board as being a target, and Dallas mentioned a concern about keeping the board a manageable size as well. Setting aside for a moment the composition (user seats, dev seats, tiered cor

[Openstack] Gerrit minimum review time frame

2012-03-12 Thread Joe Gordon
Hi All, I have noticed that some Gerrit branches get approved very quickly, sometimes in a matter of minutes. While most of the time these branches are vetted properly, the window for reviewing can be so small that a non-trivial branch lands but without enough vetting. If someone is in a meetin

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack Foundation] Foundation Structure: An Alternative

2012-03-12 Thread Joshua McKenty
In much the same way we’re struggling with creating a reasonably sized board that’s a fair representation of both the diversity of the (producer and consumer) community, and the investments of its sponsors, it feels like we’re also struggling to identify the key stakeholders in actually forming

Re: [Openstack] Help on Quantum installation through DevStack (openvswitch error) !!

2012-03-12 Thread Nicolas de BONFILS
Hi, I got the same error that I resolved by compiling my kernel with openvswitch activated as a module. It's not the easiest solution but it worked for me. Regards --- Nicolas On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 20:17, hitesh wadekar wrote: > Hello Friends, > > I want to fix the "Quantum Starter Bugs" (

Re: [Openstack] Random libvirt hangs

2012-03-12 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:17:49PM -0400, David Kranz wrote: > In the spirit of Jay's message, we have a long-running cluster > (diablo/kvm) where about once every 3-4 weeks a user will complain > that she cannot connect to a vm. Examining the compute node shows > that libvirt-bin is hung. Sometime

Re: [Openstack] eventlet and OpenStack external libraries

2012-03-12 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012, Yun Mao wrote: > My understanding is that if the answer to question3 is yes, then the > blocking call should be executed in tpool, although it's more likely > to have bugs in that case. Please be very careful with tpool. If the code being executed in the tpool thread ends up

[Openstack] eventlet and OpenStack external libraries

2012-03-12 Thread Yun Mao
Hi stackers, A couple of days ago there was a long discussion of eventlet. I am trying to summarize all external python dependencies for nova, glance and keystone. I extracted the dependency from devstack, but I realize that it is slightly different from tools/pip-requires. So I'm a little confuse

Re: [Openstack] Repose project?

2012-03-12 Thread Joe Savak
Hi Liem! Jorge & team have been busy on it and have developed the resources below. Docs: http://openrepose.org/documentation.html Wiki: http://wiki.openrepose.org/display/REPOSE/Home Code: https://github.com/rackspace/repose Thanks, Joe From: openstack-bounces+joe.savak=rackspace@lists.laun

[Openstack] Help on Quantum installation through DevStack (openvswitch error) !!

2012-03-12 Thread hitesh wadekar
Hello Friends, I want to fix the "Quantum Starter Bugs" ( http://wiki.openstack.org/QuantumStarterBugs) . For this, I have enabled the quantum service in the DevStack script to install and run Quantum ( added commands in ENABLE_SERVICE). However, while running the script I got these errors for Op

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack Foundation] Foundation Structure: An Alternative

2012-03-12 Thread Sean Roberts
How about as many companies that want to contribute annually $100K to running the foundation separate from marketing and sponsorship, can do so. Each company or a self-affiliated block of companies can put forward their board candidate. The companies that contributed to the board can then vote

Re: [Openstack] two problems about the volume service

2012-03-12 Thread Renuka Apte
Hi, About the volume services support in Xenserver, the iSCSI driver should work simply by starting the volume service with default flags. You could take a look at the volumes.sh exercises script (https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack/blob/master/exercises/volumes.sh) to check if you misse

[Openstack] Random libvirt hangs

2012-03-12 Thread David Kranz
In the spirit of Jay's message, we have a long-running cluster (diablo/kvm) where about once every 3-4 weeks a user will complain that she cannot connect to a vm. Examining the compute node shows that libvirt-bin is hung. Sometimes restarting this process fixes the problem. Sometimes it does no

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack Foundation] Foundation (.*)

2012-03-12 Thread Joshua Harlow
Some monday humor for u all. This email chain is reminding me of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvKIWjnEPNY No disrespect meant. :-) ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

[Openstack] XCP + OpenStack

2012-03-12 Thread Eduardo Nunes
I read all the docs about it but i dont get it, what release shold i use, i run the xcp under the linux or i run linux under the xcp? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://laun

Re: [Openstack] Swift concept architecture

2012-03-12 Thread John Dickinson
On Mar 11, 2012, at 12:16 AM, Dmitry Ukov wrote: > Hi all, > I want to introduce some ideas about Swift. > > Let’s assume we have huge amount of data stored in Swift (e.g. 10Pb). This > data are dynamically changed by users. So we need to reduce network load > caused by replication and intensi

Re: [Openstack] Get nova diagnostics to work with libvirt

2012-03-12 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
I gave pretty detailed instructions the last time this came up: http://www.mail-archive.com/openstack@lists.launchpad.net/msg06980.html That should be enough to get you started. Diagnostics are a bunch of key/value pairs, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an example of what they are.

Re: [Openstack] swift and two data-centres - hierarchical zones?

2012-03-12 Thread John Dickinson
On Mar 10, 2012, at 5:58 AM, John Leach wrote: > > I think what I need here is hierarchical zones - I'd define one parent > zone per data-centre, and then multiple child zones within each > (representing racks or whatever). > > Swift would be configured to write 3 replicas in 3 child zones, aimi

Re: [Openstack] [NOVA] Possible causes for hung VMs (Diablo)

2012-03-12 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
It seems unlikely that it would go straight from build -> delete this way. Is it possible that the vms were stuck in build for a long time and so a user tried to delete them via the api, and the delete simply failed? Vish On Mar 12, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > Hey Stackers, > > We'v

Re: [Openstack] [NOVA] Possible causes for hung VMs (Diablo)

2012-03-12 Thread Day, Phil
Compute/api sets the task state to "deleting" at the start of delete() but without updating the vm_state, so if these were VMs that failed to build, or were deleted during the build, then you could get that combination. -Original Message- From: openstack-bounces+philip.day=hp@lis

[Openstack] Repose project?

2012-03-12 Thread Nguyen, Liem Manh
Hello fellow stackers, Last year, Jorge gave a presentation on the Repose (Restful Proxy Service Engine)... I am just wondering what is the status of this project? Where can I find more information on this? It seems like a very good idea to help make APIs more consistent and promote re-use.

[Openstack] Get nova diagnostics to work with libvirt

2012-03-12 Thread Leander Bessa
Hello, If recall correctly, the nova diagnostics command does not work with libvirt. I can't find the exact post where this happend, but someone suggested that i could implement the diagnostics command for libvirt. If so, where in the openstack source code should i look to find the required interf

Re: [Openstack] Enabling data deduplication on Swift

2012-03-12 Thread Caitlin Bestler
Andi abes asked: > Doesn't that depend on the ratios of read vs write? > In a read tilted environment (e.g. CDN's, image stores etc), being able to > dedup at the block level in the > relatively rare write case seems a boon. The simplification this could allow > - performing localized dedup >

Re: [Openstack] Notifiers

2012-03-12 Thread Jay Pipes
On 03/12/2012 11:56 AM, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012, Jay Pipes wrote: On 03/12/2012 09:33 AM, Swaminathan Venkataraman wrote: I've been playing around with openstack for a month now and was looking to see how I can contribute. I saw that nova and glance use different methods t

[Openstack] [NOVA] Possible causes for hung VMs (Diablo)

2012-03-12 Thread Jay Pipes
Hey Stackers, We've noticed while administering the TryStack site that VMs tend to get into a stuck 'building' VM state, but we haven't been able to track down exactly what might be causing the problems. Hoping I can get some insight from folks running Diablo-based clouds. Here is what the N

[Openstack] [Docs] Gaps still to fill for Essex

2012-03-12 Thread Anne Gentle
Hi all - I've been working through the outline that Anthony Young suggested at last week's Doc Day, and still finding gaps. I'd like to fill these specifically prior to Essex, so I wondered if a general call for help to the doc-core list and the larger mailing list would render some good contributi

Re: [Openstack] Notifiers

2012-03-12 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012, Jay Pipes wrote: > On 03/12/2012 09:33 AM, Swaminathan Venkataraman wrote: > >I've been playing around with openstack for a month now and was looking > >to see how I can contribute. I saw that nova and glance use different > >methods to send out notifications. It looked relat

Re: [Openstack] swift-get-nodes lies to me?

2012-03-12 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:42:02 + "Souza, Bob" wrote: > The first argument to swift-get-nodes is the swift hash of the user name, > typically some like AUTH_mumble, not the user name itself. Indeed so, thanks. I eventually fetched that hash from logs. However, I imagine it may get taxing on a s

Re: [Openstack] Help, How to restore existing vms after host reboot?

2012-03-12 Thread livemoon
yes, I do the same steps with Razique. 2012/3/12 Razique Mahroua > I explained in the doc how I deal with disasters - basically, a magic > solution doesn't exist- nova not being environment-aware. > > http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/nova-disaster-recovery-process.

Re: [Openstack] Notifiers

2012-03-12 Thread Jay Pipes
On 03/12/2012 09:33 AM, Swaminathan Venkataraman wrote: Hi, I've been playing around with openstack for a month now and was looking to see how I can contribute. I saw that nova and glance use different methods to send out notifications. It looked relatively straight forward to make them use one c

[Openstack] two problems about the volume service

2012-03-12 Thread Lv, Hui
Hi openstack list, I have two problems related to openstack volume service. I really appreciate your kind reply. 1)Recently, we have measured the volume service performance by selecting the "tgt" as the target management software.(We use Diablo Openstack and KVM as the underlying hypervisor) W

Re: [Openstack] Help, How to restore existing vms after host reboot?

2012-03-12 Thread Razique Mahroua
I've also noticed that if you don't want to deal with extra pain, make sure you don't mount directly the volume within the instances when it starts (I'm thinking about the fstab file that would mount a volume exposed by nova-volume)If you need for specific reason to have it mounted, rely more on la

Re: [Openstack] Help, How to restore existing vms after host reboot?

2012-03-12 Thread Razique Mahroua
I explained in the doc how I deal with disasters - basically, a magic solution doesn't exist- nova not being environment-aware.http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/nova-disaster-recovery-process.htmlRegarding the flag, you can safely use it when your instances usage doesn

Re: [Openstack] Help, How to restore existing vms after host reboot?

2012-03-12 Thread Razique Mahroua
Mmmm,I myself think it's not a good idea if you have an attached volume (via nova-volume)Virsh rely on a disk-path populated via the open-iscsi component - thus an inactive session (after an host reboot) will likely prevent the domain from starting. the only dirty workaround I found so far is to re

Re: [Openstack] Help, How to restore existing vms after host reboot?

2012-03-12 Thread David Kranz
A while back I saw a comment about this in http://mirantis.blogspot.com/2011/06/openstack-nova-basic-disaster-recovery.html which suggests that setting these flags may not always be a good idea. If this is what should be done, why are these flags false by default? Perhaps a nova expert can comment.

Re: [Openstack] Fwd: nova endpoint in keystone

2012-03-12 Thread Ghe Rivero
You are welcome! On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Roman Sokolkov wrote: > Yeah, thanks! that solved problem > > --auth_strategy=keystone > > > 2012/3/7 Ghe Rivero > >> Hi, >> do you have "auth_strategy=keystone" or similar in your nova.conf >> file? >> >> Ghe Rivero >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 7,

Re: [Openstack] Help, How to restore existing vms after host reboot?

2012-03-12 Thread Christian Wittwer
You can let nova-compute start the instances after a host reboot. --start_guests_on_host_boot --resume_guests_state_on_host_boot 2012/3/10 Vishvananda Ishaya : > I think that this branch should make reboot work: > > https://review.openstack.org/#change,5177 > > It looks like we should also make s

[Openstack] Notifiers

2012-03-12 Thread Swaminathan Venkataraman
Hi, I've been playing around with openstack for a month now and was looking to see how I can contribute. I saw that nova and glance use different methods to send out notifications. It looked relatively straight forward to make them use one common library for notifications. That way, when we make ch

Re: [Openstack] doubt about documentation

2012-03-12 Thread John Garbutt
Hi, When using XenServer/XCP/Kronos, you will need a para-virtualized VM on that hypervisor to run the nova services. The diagram in this page should help visualize what is going on: http://wiki.openstack.org/XenXCPAndXenServer The easiest way I know to get started is to follow the DevStack ins

Re: [Openstack] cobbler

2012-03-12 Thread Soren Hansen
2012/3/12 khabou imen : > I want to use cobbler between 2 server from ovh both of them has > ubuntu server 11.10 as os in the first I installed orchestra and > > when I use cobbler to boot in PXE mode to the next machine  i failed > to use juju (the commande juju status didn't work) > > > My questi

Re: [Openstack] Openstack with Xen

2012-03-12 Thread John Garbutt
Hi, So glad people are reading the docs I drafted on the wiki last week :-) Ewan has taken these and added some more color on some of the details. Hopefully these will get pushed into the manuals, and I will update the wiki. With any luck that should clear up some of the confusion. We have Xen

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack Foundation] Foundation Structure: An Alternative

2012-03-12 Thread Thierry Carrez
Boris Renski Jr. wrote: > While I like the simplicity and elegance of the newly proposed > structure, I don’t see how it does away with the evils of the > pay-to-play model…. Which is what you purport we are striving to > achieve. What you, Josh, proposed is a simplified pay-to-play that > arguably

Re: [Openstack] Ubuntu 12.04 B1, Keystone (redux) + Service Catalogs

2012-03-12 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi Dean, This is true only if that particular command line option is used - so in that case it makes sense, but this issue arose because I (possibly inadvertently, but as an admin setting up accounts and testing accounts this is feasible so one would argue if this is an edge case) had SERVICE_TOKE

[Openstack] cobbler

2012-03-12 Thread khabou imen
I want to use cobbler between 2 server from ovh both of them has ubuntu server 11.10 as os in the first I installed orchestra and when I use cobbler to boot in PXE mode to the next machine i failed to use juju (the commande juju status didn't work) My question is :Is'it possible to boot in PXE