----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Booth" <mbo...@redhat.com> > > On 14/08/14 12:41, Steve Gordon wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Matthew Booth" <mbo...@redhat.com> > >> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" > >> <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > >> > >> I've just spent the best part of a day tracking down why instance > >> creation was failing on a particular setup. The error message from > >> CreateVM_Task was: 'A specified parameter was not correct'. > >> > >> After discounting a great many possibilities, I finally discovered that > >> the problem was guestId, which was being set to 'CirrosGuest'. > >> Unusually, the vSphere API docs don't contain a list of valid values for > >> that field. Given the unhelpfulness of the error message, it might be > >> worthwhile validating that field (which we get from glance) and > >> displaying an appropriate warning. > >> > >> Does anybody have a canonical list of valid values? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Matt > > > > I found a page [1] linked from the Grizzly edition of the compute guide > > [2] which has since been superseded. The content that would appear to > > have replaced it in more recent versions of the documentation suite [3] > > does not appear to contain such a link though. If a link to a more formal > > list is available it would be great to get this in the documentation. > > I just extracted a list of 126 os types from the ESX 5.5u1 installation > iso. While this isn't ideal documentation, I'm fairly sure it will be > accurate :) > > Matt
Hi Matt, Any chance you can provide this list? Would be good to get into the configuration reference. Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev