This wishlist bug has been open a year without any activity. I'm going to move it to "Opinion / Wishlist", which is an easily-obtainable queue of older requests that have come on. This bug can be reopened (set back to "New") if someone decides to work on this.
** Changed in: nova Status: Confirmed => Opinion -- 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/836973 Title: nova should keep instance data after termination Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): Opinion Bug description: On EC2, instances are available in DescribeInstances output afer they're terminated. In nova, at the moment, they disappear immediately. This makes getting "shutdown" console output just about impossible. Relevant link to amazon ec2 documentation: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/DeveloperGuide/index.html?instance-console.html "Only the most recent 64 KB of posted output is stored, which is available for at least 1 hour after the last posting." $ euca-run-instances --key mykey ami-00000056 RESERVATION r-227nsegw smoser_project default INSTANCE i-00000200 ami-00000056 scheduling mykey 0 m1.small 2011-08-29T20:11:09Z unknown zone aki-00000052 ari-00000053 $ euca-get-console-output i-00000201 | tail -n 5 ec2: 1024 83:c3:7a:9b:42:fc:0d:c5:48:96:bd:46:62:25:bf:34 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub (DSA) ec2: -----END SSH HOST KEY FINGERPRINTS----- ec2: ############################################################# landscape-client is not configured, please run landscape-config. $ euca-terminate-instances i-00000201 #no output # wait 10 seconds or so $ euca-describe-instances i-00000201 #no output $ echo $? 0 $ euca-get-console-output i-00000201 InstanceNotFound: Instance %(instance_id)s could not be found. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/836973/+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