Looks like this was an out of memory issue and not something wrong with nova per se.
** Changed in: nova Status: Confirmed => 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/1366931 Title: libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: Cannot set up guest memory 'pc.ram': Cannot allocate memory Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): Invalid Bug description: http://logs.openstack.org/41/116741/5/gate/gate-grenade- dsvm/7064ee5/logs/old/screen-n-cpu.txt.gz?level=TRACE#_2014-09-07_02_27_10_408 Libvirt stacktrace in n-cpu: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/stack/old/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1329, in _build_instance set_access_ip=set_access_ip) File "/opt/stack/old/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 393, in decorated_function return function(self, context, *args, **kwargs) File "/opt/stack/old/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1741, in _spawn LOG.exception(_('Instance failed to spawn'), instance=instance) File "/opt/stack/old/nova/nova/openstack/common/excutils.py", line 68, in __exit__ six.reraise(self.type_, self.value, self.tb) File "/opt/stack/old/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1738, in _spawn block_device_info) File "/opt/stack/old/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 2286, in spawn block_device_info) File "/opt/stack/old/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 3686, in _create_domain_and_network power_on=power_on) File "/opt/stack/old/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 3588, in _create_domain domain.XMLDesc(0)) File "/opt/stack/old/nova/nova/openstack/common/excutils.py", line 68, in __exit__ six.reraise(self.type_, self.value, self.tb) File "/opt/stack/old/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 3583, in _create_domain domain.createWithFlags(launch_flags) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 179, in doit result = proxy_call(self._autowrap, f, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 139, in proxy_call rv = execute(f,*args,**kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/tpool.py", line 77, in tworker rv = meth(*args,**kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 896, in createWithFlags if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreateWithFlags() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: Cannot set up guest memory 'pc.ram': Cannot allocate memory query: message:"Cannot set up guest memory 'pc.ram': Cannot allocate memory" AND tags:"screen-n-cpu.txt" AND tags:"multiline" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1366931/+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