That's a very clear design decision that was made in the past between image-based instances and volume-based instances. Snapshotting an image-based instance will only backup your root partition and won't take in account all the attached secondary disks to it (for many reasons, including security).
Should you want to propose that new feature, please follow the instructions in [1] and file both a blueprint and a spec file. [1] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/process.html#how-do-i-get- my-code-merged ** Changed in: nova Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: nova Status: New => 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/1563209 Title: instance's snapshot image can't restore the instance Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): Invalid Bug description: Reproducing method as following: 1、Boot a vm from the image 2、Create a blank volume . 3、Attach the volume to the vm . 4、Snapshot the vm. 6、After the fourth step, you will find that you have a new image in glance. We're supposed to call it “vm_snapshot_image”. 7、Boot a new vm from the "vm_snapshot_image", but the new vm's data volume was lost. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1563209/+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
