Re: [Openstack] Swift Probetests

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/19/2012 11:10 AM, Maru Newby wrote: The swift probetests are broken: https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1014931 Does the swift team intend to maintain probetests going forward? Given how broken they are at present (bad imports, failures even when imports are fixed), it would appear

Re: [Openstack] Common openstack client library

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Pipes
Did you see: https://github.com/openstack/python-openstackclient Also, keep in mind that some of the ways the existing Glance client (and Swift client FTM) work is due to lack of support in httplib2 for chunked-transfer encoding. Best, -jay On 06/19/2012 12:43 PM, Alexey Ababilov wrote:

Re: [Openstack] Timeout during image build (task Networking)

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Pipes
Hi Ross, In the process of diagnosing this, but I'm seeing this sporadically when running Tempest against a devstack install. I'll try to pinpoint the issue later today and post back my findings. Best, -jay p.s. Sorry for top-posting. On 06/18/2012 06:03 PM, Lillie Ross-CDSR11 wrote: I'm

Re: [Openstack] [metering] Glance usage data retrieval

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Pipes
Hi Julien and Stuart! Comments inline... On 06/19/2012 07:12 AM, stuart.mcla...@hp.com wrote: Brian, Jay, I'll give you a chance to reply to Julien first, but I have a follow on query... It doesn't seem like right now Glance produces enough records for full metering of operations. Eg if you

Re: [Openstack] Need help and guidance of Openstack Swift

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Pipes
Some links to show you: https://github.com/openstack/horizon/blob/7b565fc9839833b4b99b1fc3b02269b79071af3e/horizon/api/swift.py https://github.com/openstack/horizon/blob/f6f2a91e14f6bdd4e1a87e31a1d6923127afee1b/horizon/dashboards/nova/containers/views.py Best, -jay On 06/19/2012 02:04 PM,

Re: [Openstack] Timeout during image build (task Networking)

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Pipes
cc'ing Vish on this, as this is now occurring on every single devstack + Tempest run, for multiple servers. Vish, I am seeing the exact same issue as shown below. Instances end up in ERROR state and looking into the nova-network log, I find *no* errors at all, and yet looking at the

Re: [Openstack] Timeout during image build (task Networking)

2012-06-19 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/19/2012 03:13 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: Sorry, paste fail on the last message. This seems like a likely culprit: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/8339/ I'm guessing it only happens on concurrent builds? We probably need a synchronized somewhere. I notice the the RPC calls to the

Re: [Openstack] Deleting a volume stuck in attaching state?

2012-06-20 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/20/2012 11:52 AM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote: A strategy we are making in Nova (WIP) is to allow instance termination no matter what. Perhaps a similar strategy could be adopted for volumes too? Thanks, The 'nova-manage volume delete ...' solution worked just fine in this case...but in

Re: [Openstack] Timeout during image build (task Networking)

2012-06-20 Thread Jay Pipes
On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: cc'ing Vish on this, as this is now occurring on every single devstack + Tempest run, for multiple servers. Vish, I am seeing the exact same issue as shown below. Instances end up in ERROR state and looking into the nova-network log, I find *no* errors

Re: [Openstack] Timeout during image build (task Networking)

2012-06-20 Thread Jay Pipes
, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: Sorry, paste fail on the last message. This seems like a likely culprit: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/8339/ I'm guessing it only happens on concurrent builds? We probably need a synchronized somewhere. Vish On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: cc'ing Vish

Re: [Openstack] Need help and guidance of Openstack Swift

2012-06-20 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/19/2012 04:34 PM, Yogesh Bansal wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks a lot for quick response. This was little helpful. I need how to send the parameters to the swift server by making the connection. I think that task is happening in inside the below code. Could you please tell me what is happening in

Re: [Openstack] AttributeError: virDomain instance has no attribute 'reset'

2012-06-22 Thread Jay Pipes
That's pretty much what I understood based on a conversation with Vish on IRC the other day. It's caused me to pretty much give up on 11.10 for modern OpenStack (Nova) installs. -jay On 06/22/2012 01:23 AM, Vaze, Mandar wrote: Found this bug (albeit for Fedora 16)

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack][Nova] Possible inconsistency between devstack/nova execution and test_virt_drivers.py

2012-06-25 Thread Jay Pipes
You are not returning the data in the test method, whereas you are in the real method :) -jay On 06/25/2012 10:44 AM, Leander Bessa Beernaert wrote: Sorry, forgot to add the code: *This is my method (this worked with devstack):* def get_diagnostics(self, instance): dom =

Re: [Openstack] nova boot --hint same_host=[UUID] fails with InstanceNotFound: Instance [ could not be found. ?

2012-06-26 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/26/2012 04:31 AM, Christian Parpart wrote: Hey all, while strictly following the guidelines [1] on how to spawn an instance on the same host as another instance, I don't see any link for [1] above? I run into the error, that it cannot find some instanced called: [, which - of course -

Re: [Openstack] Adding docs gating jobs?

2012-06-26 Thread Jay Pipes
++ -jay On 06/26/2012 10:02 AM, Monty Taylor wrote: Hey guys! We have all of the projects properly and consistently building and uploading sphinx docs from in tree. This is pretty exciting, because it means one more resource we can expect to work. So related to that, we were talking about

Re: [Openstack] Swift Probetests

2012-06-26 Thread Jay Pipes
Not that I know of. Best, -jay On 06/26/2012 04:54 PM, Maru Newby wrote: Have I missed a response in the past week? On 2012-06-19, at 12:14 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: On 06/19/2012 11:10 AM, Maru Newby wrote: The swift probetests are broken: https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1014931 Does

Re: [Openstack] create volume hangs at creating.

2012-06-27 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/27/2012 06:45 AM, Milind wrote: Hi, I am still facing this problem following is the log. I actually don't see any errors in the log file contents below (you can ignore the silly AssertionError thing about threading.pyc). Perhaps you could try executing the underlying volume creation

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack][Nova] Snapshot stuck in Queued state, no erros found in compute log

2012-06-27 Thread Jay Pipes
This looks very familiar :) Make sure that you have enough space in the partition that houses /tmp (usually whatever partition has / mounted). The snapshot operation requires at least as much space in /tmp as the size of the snapshot to be made. If you have improperly given yourself a very

Re: [Openstack] glance access error from remote client

2012-06-27 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/27/2012 10:04 AM, Xin Zhao wrote: Hello, I have an Essex install of openstack on RHEL6. The controller node has all openstack services running, and there are several separate compute nodes. Now I have a problem using glance. If I issue glance index --host=XXX --port=9292 on the

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack][Nova] Possible inconsistency between devstack/nova execution and test_virt_drivers.py

2012-06-27 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/27/2012 10:17 AM, Leander Bessa Beernaert wrote: snip How do I proceed now? Should i ate the required methods to the fake_libvirt? Do note that i dont have the latest libvirt installed and am therefore missing another set of crucial methods which i can't test. :s No. In general, you only

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack][Nova] Snapshot stuck in Queued state, no erros found in compute log

2012-06-27 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/27/2012 12:28 PM, Leander Bessa Beernaert wrote: You sir a my hero! I turned out someone altered the filesystem before installing OpenStack leaving me with 3gb partition for the operating system. LOL, no worries. I remembered running into that in the first TryStack zone deployment.

Re: [Openstack] Nova and asynchronous instance launching

2012-06-28 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/27/2012 06:51 PM, Doug Davis wrote: Consider the creation of a Job type of entity that will be returned from the original call - probably a 202. Then the client can check the Job to see how things are going. BTW - this pattern can be used for any async op, not just the launching of

Re: [Openstack] compute_rpcapi ?

2012-06-28 Thread Jay Pipes
Hi Phil! :) I believe Russell Bryant recently did some work on pulling the RPC code out of Nova and into openstack-common. Russell, perhaps you have some insight into Phil's question below? Best, -jay On 06/28/2012 09:46 AM, Day, Phil wrote: Hi All, At the risk of sounding badly behind

Re: [Openstack] Nova and asynchronous instance launching

2012-06-29 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/29/2012 04:25 AM, Huang Zhiteng wrote: Sound like a performance issue. I think this symptom can be much eased if we spend sometime fixing whatever bottleneck causing this (slow AMQP, scheduler, or network)? Now that Nova API has got multprocess enabled, we'd move to next bottleneck in

Re: [Openstack] Nova and asynchronous instance launching

2012-06-29 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/29/2012 05:45 PM, Doug Davis wrote: You don't really expect a client (think ec2-like-user) to analyze debug info do you? I really think we need a nice consistent way for people to see what's going on with long-running operations. Debug info isn't that to me. thanks -Doug Also, see:

Re: [Openstack] Nova and asynchronous instance launching

2012-07-01 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/29/2012 01:50 PM, David Kranz wrote: An assumption is being made here that the user and cloud provider are unrelated. But I think there are many projects under development where a cloud-based service is being provided on top of an OpenStack infrastructure. In that use case, the direct

Re: [Openstack] How do I stop image-create from using /tmp?

2012-07-01 Thread Jay Pipes
On 06/30/2012 09:25 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote: So, maybe setting any of this environment variables for nova-compute to desired value sholuld help. Yeah, I was expecting that. Given that this could easily take out a compute host I'd like to see it get an explicit configuration value

Re: [Openstack] Heterogeneous hardware support

2012-07-02 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/02/2012 01:23 AM, balaji patnala wrote: Hi, Does open stack [Essex] release support Heterogeneous hardware for creating VMs with Security Applications? If not, what is the road map for this. Please let me know. Could you please elaborate on what you mean by creating VMs with security

Re: [Openstack] CY12-Q2 Community Analysis — OpenStack vs OpenNebula vs Eucalyptus vs CloudStack

2012-07-02 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/02/2012 05:00 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Qingye Jiang (John) wrote: I would like to let you know that I have just finished an analysis on the 4 open source projects (OpenStack, OpenNebula, Eucalyptus, CloudStack) from a community activity perspective. The analysis report could be found

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack][Nova] Issues with run_tests.sh, no tests are run when import libvirt is present

2012-07-02 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/02/2012 08:57 AM, Leander Bessa Beernaert wrote: I'm developing on custom branch and haven't updated the repository for at least 3 weeks. Do i fetch the lastest changes like this: git remote update git checkout master git pull origin master git checkout branch

[Openstack] [CHEF] Clarification on osops/chef-repo/roles/nova-compute.rb

2012-07-02 Thread Jay Pipes
Hi Ron, cc'ing the openstack ML for extra eyes and opinions... So, Nati and I are looking to use either the osops chef-repo or something similar as the basis of the new TryStack zone chef deployment. I've been going through the recipes and roles and I have a question on the nova-compute *role*:

Re: [Openstack] Openstack and Google Compute Engine

2012-07-02 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/02/2012 10:25 AM, Simon G. wrote: Noone tested or noone is interested in Google Compute Engine and Openstack? No, I think it's just that nobody has looked into it yet. Also, when you say their test app is 600,000 cores, I don't think you have any providers of OpenStack that (yet) have

Re: [Openstack] Heterogeneous hardware support

2012-07-02 Thread Jay Pipes
, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com mailto:jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/02/2012 01:23 AM, balaji patnala wrote: Hi, Does open stack [Essex] release support Heterogeneous hardware for creating VMs with Security Applications? If not, what is the road

Re: [Openstack] How do I stop image-create from using /tmp?

2012-07-02 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/02/2012 01:32 PM, Mark Lehrer wrote: just did an ln -s /some/dir/with/space /tmp and that does solve I added an option to /etc/init/nova_compute.conf to specify the tmp space, so the start line looks like this: exec su -s /bin/sh -c export TMPDIR=/var/tmp; exec nova-compute

Re: [Openstack] coding standards

2012-07-05 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/03/2012 09:50 PM, Dan Wendlandt wrote: I think everyone (including the reviewer) would agree that the review comments went beyond this, with spelling and grammer suggestions. My s/grammer/grammar /me runs for the hills. -jay ___ Mailing

Re: [Openstack] OVF vs. bare container formats for qcow2 images

2012-07-05 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/03/2012 10:07 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote: Does anybody know if OpenStack (nova+glance) currently supports OVA packages? No, not really. Glance will store pretty much anything you throw at it, but the virt driver(s) in Nova will need to know how to handle what gets returned from Glance. It

Re: [Openstack] Glance Image Upload error.

2012-07-07 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/06/2012 01:26 AM, Trinath Somanchi wrote: Hi - Nope, I'm not working on Diablo release. But I have image in 3 parts. I want to store these three parts of the image into glance as a single image. To achieve the same while doing a google search found this procedure. Hence,

Re: [Openstack] Performance metrics of RabbitMQServer

2012-07-07 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/06/2012 06:52 AM, Naveen Kuna wrote: Hi All, Can anyone know performance metrics of RabbitMQServer ? Google is your friend :) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7921324/performance-comparison-between-zeromq-rabbitmq-and-apache-qpid Keep in mind you have different feature sets

Re: [Openstack] Anyone using instance metadata?

2012-07-08 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/04/2012 06:20 PM, Steve Baker wrote: snip To fix this semantic clash I would advocate adopting Amazon's Tags terminology but I won't be pushing this too hard since I'm new here ;) rant I've been saying this for years now. Metadata is absolutely used incorrectly in the Compute and Images

Re: [Openstack] [Openstack-qa-team] QA for Live Migration

2012-07-08 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/06/2012 05:34 AM, John Garbutt wrote: Hi, I am in the process of adding Live Migration support into the XenAPI driver. Are there any current plans on how to test Live Migration, is it done already? I was thinking of copying what has been done for Migration. cc'ing Anne Gentle because

Re: [Openstack] [CHEF] Clarification on osops/chef-repo/roles/nova-compute.rb

2012-07-09 Thread Jay Pipes
Vish and Ron, just getting back to this... see inline continued questions for you both. On 07/02/2012 04:24 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:28 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: Hi Ron, cc'ing the openstack ML for extra eyes and opinions... So, Nati and I are looking to use either

Re: [Openstack] QA for Live Migration

2012-07-09 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/09/2012 09:35 AM, John Garbutt wrote: Renuka and I are looking at proposing a blueprint to try and sort out some of this confusion. I think this is the current situation: - historically XenAPI had migrate, Libvirt had live migrate - But by end of Folsom we should have both having

Re: [Openstack] Call for comments and testing: prototype for OpenStack Document translation process

2012-07-10 Thread Jay Pipes
Awesome work, Daisy! Comments inline... On 07/09/2012 04:59 PM, Ying Chun Guo wrote: Hi, team I created a prototype of document translation, to verify the whole document translation process: slicing a doc, uploading to transifex, translating, downloading to local disk, merging the

Re: [Openstack] [CHEF] Clarification on osops/chef-repo/roles/nova-compute.rb

2012-07-10 Thread Jay Pipes
/rcbops/chef-cookbooks --- Joseph Breu Deployment Engineer Rackspace Cloud Builders 210-312-3508 On Jul 9, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: Vish and Ron, just getting back to this... see inline continued questions for you both. On 07/02/2012 04:24 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote

Re: [Openstack] [CHEF] Clarification on osops/chef-repo/roles/nova-compute.rb

2012-07-10 Thread Jay Pipes
Twitter, IRC, GitHub: mattray On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: Gah... probably would be good if you guys either shut down the repo or made a big notice on the README then :( -jay On 07/09/2012 05:25 PM, Joe Breu wrote: Hi Jay, The chef cookbooks at https

Re: [Openstack] QA for Live Migration

2012-07-10 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/09/2012 10:09 AM, John Garbutt wrote: - historically XenAPI had migrate, Libvirt had live migrate - But by end of Folsom we should have both having both Yes, but what is the difference between the two? Got you. I think this is right: Migration: - shutdown the VM - move current disk

Re: [Openstack] Don't bypass code-review.

2012-07-10 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/10/2012 01:52 PM, Eric Windisch wrote: I've had code reviews sitting out for over a week, looking to fix issues with the ZeroMQ driver in openstack-common. I'd love to get it fixed, and nudged a couple of people to get the reviews in, but figured that it would get in eventually - and

Re: [Openstack] [CHEF] Clarification on osops/chef-repo/roles/nova-compute.rb

2012-07-11 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/11/2012 12:00 PM, Monty Taylor wrote: snip Let me know if there are any things that people are wanting related to any of these projects from the OpenStack CI infrastructure. Foodcritic/jsonlint seem pretty easy - deployments on to bare nodes using the chef stuff similar to our

Re: [Openstack] [nova] mysql connection optimization

2012-07-11 Thread Jay Pipes
+1 to all your ideas below, Devananda. On 07/11/2012 01:33 PM, Devananda van der Veen wrote: Hi all, I've been taking a look at the way Nova uses its MySQL database. Having done MySQL performance audits for years as a consultant, a few things jumped out right away at me. First is the way

Re: [Openstack] [keystone] Rate limit middleware

2012-07-12 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/11/2012 07:28 PM, Rafael Durán Castañeda wrote: Thank you guys for the info, I didn't know about some of the projects. However writing my on-house own stuff is not what I was considering but adding a middleware into Keystone, nothing fancy but extensible so it covers at least most basic

Re: [Openstack] [nova] [cinder] Nova-volume vs. Cinder in Folsom

2012-07-12 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/12/2012 10:36 AM, Thomas, Duncan wrote: We’ve got volumes in production, and while I’d be more comfortable with option 2 for the reasons you list below, plus the fact that cinder is fundamentally new code with totally new HA and reliability work needing to be done (particularly for the

Re: [Openstack] [keystone] Rate limit middleware

2012-07-12 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/12/2012 12:26 PM, Rafael Durán Castañeda wrote: Unless I'm missing something, nova_limits is not applicable to Keystone since it takes the tenant_id from 'nova.context', which obiously is not available for Keystone; thought adapt/extend it to keystone should be trivial and probably is

Re: [Openstack] [nova] [cinder] Nova-volume vs. Cinder in Folsom

2012-07-12 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/12/2012 12:32 PM, George Reese wrote: This community just doesn't give a rat's ass about compatibility, does it? a) Please don't be inappropriate on the mailing list b) Vish sent the email below to the mailing list *precisely because* he cares about compatibility. He wants to discuss the

Re: [Openstack] Capacity based scheduling: What updated free_ram_mb in Folsom

2012-07-13 Thread Jay Pipes
Hi Phil, The nova.db.api.compute_node_update() call is what the individual virt drivers call to update the compute node stats. grep for that and you'll see where the calls to set the compute node data are called. Best, -jay On 07/13/2012 09:38 AM, Day, Phil wrote: Hi Folks, I was

Re: [Openstack] [nova] [cinder] Nova-volume vs. Cinder in Folsom

2012-07-16 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/16/2012 09:55 AM, David Kranz wrote: An excellent idea. I believe that if the below message had been sent in April, the tenor of the discussion would have been much different. I think a main source of angst around this was that there was no mention at the Folsom summit of nova-volume

Re: [Openstack] Heat application for incubation

2012-07-16 Thread Jay Pipes
cc'ing the PPB mailing list... On 07/16/2012 06:25 PM, Steven Dake wrote: Dear members of the Project Policy Board: After four months of development on the Heat project[1], the developers voted[2] to apply for incubation. The developers feel Heat provides a feature rich user experience and

Re: [Openstack] [nova] [cinder] Nova-volume vs. Cinder in Folsom

2012-07-17 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/17/2012 05:47 AM, Thomas, Duncan wrote: Jay Pipes on 16 July 2012 18:31 wrote: On 07/16/2012 09:55 AM, David Kranz wrote: Sure, although in this *particular* case the Cinder project is a bit-for-bit copy of nova-volumes. In fact, the only thing really of cause for concern

Re: [Openstack] [Quantum] Network, Subnet and Port names

2012-07-17 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/17/2012 01:27 AM, Dan Wendlandt wrote: Hi Gary, this is an example of when I wish openstack APIs had a style-guide to try to ensure some consistency across projects. Yeah, we actually discussed this a long time ago on the PPB and, IIRC, the decision was made to not have some strict API

Re: [Openstack] Distributed quota manager concept

2012-07-18 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/17/2012 06:08 PM, Everett Toews wrote: Setting aside any SQL/NoSQL religious debate or even the best tool for the job argument, I think you'd find this to be a hard sell to the operations crowd. Nobody is going to want to have all of their OpenStack data in an SQL DB (which they may have

Re: [Openstack] Possible Glance Bug?

2012-07-18 Thread Jay Pipes
Try: (old glance client) glance index deleted=True to see image records that are marked deleted. or: glance index deleted=None to see ALL image records. The new glance client -- python-glanceclient -- does not yet support filtering for deleted image records, but it should be able to do:

[Openstack] [DIABLO] EC2 Metadata API service slow? Try this patch.

2012-07-19 Thread Jay Pipes
Hey all, A few deployers of Diablo, including Wikipedia, were experiencing very slow response times from the EC2 metadata service in Nova. Yesterday and today I tracked the bug down to a problem in the way the database queries for the metadata results were being generated. I'm not all

Re: [Openstack] [KeyStone] Requestid, context, notification in Keystone

2012-07-23 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/21/2012 02:57 AM, Joseph Heck wrote: Hey Nachi If by this you mean the idea that a request ID is created at a user request action, and then propagated through all relevant systems and API calls to make tracing the distributed calls easier, I'm totally in favor of the idea.

Re: [Openstack] Incremental Backup of Instances

2012-07-23 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/22/2012 11:22 PM, Kobagana Kumar wrote: Hi All, I am working on *Delta Changes *of an instance. Can you please tell me The procedure to take *Incremental Backups (Delta Changes) *of VMs, instead of taking the snapshot of entire instance. The only non-commerical solution I know of for

Re: [Openstack] High Available queues in rabbitmq

2012-07-23 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/23/2012 09:02 AM, Alessandro Tagliapietra wrote: Hi guys, just an idea, i'm deploying Openstack trying to make it HA. The missing thing is rabbitmq, which can be easily started in active/active mode, but it needs to declare the queues adding an x-ha-policy entry.

Re: [Openstack] [nova] core members

2012-07-23 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/23/2012 02:31 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: Sean Dague: 2 I'm not nova-core, but I'd recommend Sean as a core committer. He's been active in both reviews and patches recently. Best, -jay ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post

Re: [Openstack] High Available queues in rabbitmq

2012-07-23 Thread Jay Pipes
, perhaps you can add a rabbit_ha_servers ListOpt flag that, when filled, would be used instead of rabbit_host and rabbit_port. That way you won't break backwards compat? Best, -jay On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/23/2012 09:02 AM, Alessandro Tagliapietra

Re: [Openstack] [nova] a proposal to change metadata API data

2012-07-23 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/21/2012 09:00 PM, Matt Joyce wrote: Preamble: Until now, all data that is made available by the metadata server has been data that cannot be found anywhere else at the time it may be needed. In short, an instance can't be passed it's instance id before it's instance id has been

Re: [Openstack] VM High Availability and Floating IP

2012-07-24 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/24/2012 04:29 AM, Alessandro Tagliapietra wrote: Hi guys, i've 2 missing pieces in my HA openstack install. Actually all openstack services are managed by pacemaker and i can succesfully start/stop vm etc. when the cloud controller is down (i've only 2 servers atm). 1 - how can i

Re: [Openstack] [nova] a proposal to change metadata API data

2012-07-24 Thread Jay Pipes
Thanks Matt, comments inline... On 07/23/2012 05:25 PM, Matt Joyce wrote: I wish to add some data to the metadata server that can be found somewhere else. That a user could jump through a hoop or two to add to their instances. Esteemed personages are concerned that I

Re: [Openstack] VM High Availability and Floating IP

2012-07-24 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/24/2012 12:52 PM, Alessandro Tagliapietra wrote: Thank you Jay, never read about that. Seems something like scalr/chef? WHich handles application and keeps a minimum number of vm running? Yeah, kinda.. just one more way of doing things... :) -jay

Re: [Openstack] [nova] a proposal to change metadata API data

2012-07-24 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/24/2012 12:47 PM, Martin Packman wrote: On 23/07/2012, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: This is only due to the asinine EC2 API -- or rather the asinine implementation in EC2 that doesn't create an instance ID before the instance is launched. So, I'm curious, how do you allocate

Re: [Openstack] [nova] a proposal to change metadata API data

2012-07-24 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/24/2012 01:10 PM, Martin Packman wrote: On 24/07/2012, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: The OpenStack Compute API POST /servers command creates a server UUID that is passed back in the initial response and allows the user to query the status of the server throughout its launch

Re: [Openstack] Qcow2 Details on base images

2012-07-28 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/28/2012 11:10 AM, Gaurab Basu wrote: Another thing I would like to know is whether it uses snapshot mechanism over time. What is it you are referring to above? Are you asking whether Nova automatically takes snapshots of images over time? If so, no, it does not. If a user requests a

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] proposal to provide project specific instance type

2012-07-28 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/28/2012 01:10 AM, unicell wrote: Hi, In our use case, there is a need to provide project-specific instance type. Meaning that this instance type is only visible and available for several projects. It's an idea kind of like private image concept for Glance project. Has this proposal

Re: [Openstack] Default reply to behavior for mailing list

2012-07-31 Thread Jay Pipes
On 07/31/2012 02:09 PM, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012, Bhuvaneswaran A bhu...@apache.org wrote: If a subscriber reply to a mailing list message, it's sent to the author only. Each subscriber should use Reply to All every time, to post a reply to mailing list. Can you please

Re: [Openstack] [glance] legacy client removal and python-glanceclient

2012-07-31 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/01/2012 12:49 AM, Matt Joyce wrote: I think we're running out of opportunities to do stuff like this. This is exactly the sort of thing that will drive George Reese into a homocidal rage. More to the point its exactly the sort of thing our users are going to despise us for. And that

Re: [Openstack] python novaclient's response when extension is disabled

2012-08-01 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/01/2012 10:10 AM, Jiang, Yunhong wrote: Currently, if an extension is disabled, there will be no clear information like extension is not support, instead, it will return ERROR: n/a (HTTP 404), like followed output in my devstack. yjiang5@yjiang5-linux1:~/work/openstack/devstack$

Re: [Openstack] [glance] legacy client removal and python-glanceclient

2012-08-01 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/01/2012 03:18 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 18:37 +, Gabriel Hurley wrote: As a rule of thumb, we need to start doing proper deprecation on all public interfaces, whether that's a CLI, client method signatures, APIs, etc. It's a little late for this on the old

Re: [Openstack] [glance] legacy client removal and python-glanceclient

2012-08-01 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/01/2012 02:11 PM, Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:06:10 -0400 Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: I don't disagree with you. At the same time, I think Brian has a good point when he compares having two versions of SQLAlchemy installed on a system: it just doesn't make much

Re: [Openstack] Qcow2 Details on base images

2012-08-02 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/02/2012 07:47 AM, Gaurab Basu wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for your reply, it helped me get started. I have been going through the code and some of the sparse docs that are available. This is the code file https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/virt/libvirt/utils.py

Re: [Openstack] Cannot pass hint to Nova Scheduler

2012-08-02 Thread Jay Pipes
Sorry for top-posting, but there's not really a good place to inline comment. First, let's tackle logging in devstack... When using devstack, you noticed that it logs to the screen session by default. To make devstack ALSO log to a file, put the following in your localrc: LOG_COLOR=False

Re: [Openstack] best practices for merging common into specific projects

2012-08-02 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/02/2012 04:05 PM, Eric Windisch wrote: On Monday, July 23, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: Sorry if this rekindles old arguments, but could someone summarize the reasons for an openstack-common PTL without voting rights? I would have defaulted to giving them a vote *especially*

Re: [Openstack] keystone and ssl ?

2012-08-03 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/03/2012 05:18 AM, Pierre Amadio wrote: snip https://blueprints.launchpad.net/keystone/+spec/2-way-ssl At the bottom of the blueprint, there are 2 addressed by links with a set of patches: https://review.openstack.org/1038 https://review.openstack.org/7706 But i do not find trace

Re: [Openstack] best practices for merging common into specific projects

2012-08-03 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/02/2012 08:52 PM, Eric Windisch wrote: What do you mean by membership services? See the email today from Yun Mao. This is a proposal to have a pluggable framework for integration services that maintain memberships. This was originally desiged to replace the MySQL heartbeats in Nova,

Re: [Openstack] Cannot pass hint to Nova Scheduler

2012-08-03 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/03/2012 09:28 AM, Heng Xu wrote: Another questions is, I can get all the status of a computing node in the mysql nova database, and select * from compute_node, but now I am using json filter, the only field I have success with now is the free_ram_db, if my hint uses free_disk_gb, then

Re: [Openstack] KVM live block migration: stability, future, docs

2012-08-07 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/07/2012 08:57 AM, Blair Bethwaite wrote: Hi Sébastien, Thanks for responding! By the way, I have come across your blog post regarding this and should reference it for the list: http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/07/12/openstack-block-migration/ On 7 August 2012 17:45, Sébastien

Re: [Openstack] KVM live block migration: stability, future, docs

2012-08-07 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/07/2012 08:23 PM, Blair Bethwaite wrote: Hi Jay, On 8 August 2012 06:13, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: Why would you find this surprising? I'm just curious... The live migration algorithm detailed here: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Migration, seems to me to indicate

Re: [Openstack] KVM live block migration: stability, future, docs

2012-08-07 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/07/2012 09:42 PM, Blair Bethwaite wrote: On 8 August 2012 11:33, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, from your original post, I didn't think you were referring to live migration, but rather just server migration. You had written Compared to regular (non-block) live migrate, but I

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Create multiple instances in one request

2012-08-07 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/07/2012 02:27 PM, Anne Gentle wrote: It seems the log from the last Nova meeting where this was discussed is gathered together with the QA team meeting due to the meetbot not being turned off between meetings. The log is here, scroll to the bottom to read.

Re: [Openstack] Help with meta-data

2012-08-08 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/08/2012 03:57 AM, Simon Walter wrote: Hi all, I've completed the excruciating Launchpad process of subscribing to a mailing list to ask for your help with having my instances access their meta-data. What was excruciating about the subscription process? However, they cannot access

Re: [Openstack] [openstack-dev] [nova] Call for Help -- OpenStack API XML Support

2012-08-10 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/09/2012 11:05 PM, George Reese wrote: On Aug 9, 2012, at 8:14 PM, Doug Davis d...@us.ibm.com mailto:d...@us.ibm.com wrote: Situations like this are always interesting to watch. :-) On the one hand its open-source, so if you care about something then put up the resources to make it

Re: [Openstack] jcloud has a conneciton pool?

2012-08-10 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/10/2012 04:14 PM, chaohua wang wrote: Hi Folks, I am working on Jcloud and Openstack. We have application(using jcloud) to connect Hp cloud service. But for each request to HP cloud service, we created restContext (RestContextNovaApi, NovaAsyncApi restContext =

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] How common is user_data for instances?

2012-08-13 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/13/2012 09:12 AM, Dan Prince wrote: - Original Message - From: Michael Still michael.st...@canonical.com To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net, openstack-operat...@lists.openstack.org Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 5:12:22 AM Subject: [Openstack] [Nova] How common is user_data for

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] How common is user_data for instances?

2012-08-13 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/13/2012 09:53 AM, Stephen Gran wrote: Hi, I think user_data is probably reasonably common - most people who use, eg, cloud-init will use it (we do). As the 64k limit is a MySQL limitation, and not a nova limitation, why not just say, if you want more storage, use postgres (or

Re: [Openstack] Does glance-scrubber.conf require sql_connection?

2012-08-13 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/12/2012 10:12 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote: Doc question: Does glance-scrubber require sql_connection? The Install and Deploy Guide specifies the sql_connection parameter http://docs.openstack.org/essex/openstack-compute/install/apt/content/glance-scrubber-conf-file.html, but it wasn't

Re: [Openstack] Does glance-scrubber.conf require sql_connection?

2012-08-13 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/13/2012 01:45 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote: On Aug 13, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/12/2012 10:12 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote: Doc question: Does glance-scrubber require sql_connection? The Install and Deploy Guide specifies the sql_connection parameter

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] How common is user_data for instances?

2012-08-13 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/13/2012 06:02 PM, Michael Still wrote: On 14/08/12 01:24, Jay Pipes wrote: Or just set the column to the LONGTEXT type and both MySQL and PostgreSQL will be just as happy. This is what I was originally aiming at -- will large deployers be angry if I change this column to longtext

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] How common is user_data for instances?

2012-08-14 Thread Jay Pipes
On 08/13/2012 07:38 PM, Michael Still wrote: On 14/08/12 08:54, Jay Pipes wrote: I was *going* to create a random-data table with the same average row size as the instances table in Nova to see how long the migration would take, and then I realized something... The user_data column

Re: [Openstack] multiple interfaces for floating IPs

2012-08-27 Thread Jay Pipes
No, not that I'm aware of -- at least not on the same compute node... You can only specify public_interface=XXX for a single interface (or bridge) used for all floating IPs for the VMs on a compute node. Best, -jay On 08/20/2012 12:13 PM, Juris wrote: Greetings everyone, Just a quick

Re: [Openstack] A plea from an OpenStack user

2012-08-29 Thread Jay Pipes
Ryan, thank you for your excellent and detailed comments about problems you encountered during the upgrade process. This is precisely the kind of constructive feedback that is needed and desired. Someone mentioned automated testing of upgrade paths. This is exactly what needs to happen. Hopefully

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