Hi, I am running OpenStack nova 2.17.0 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 with libvirt 1.2.2 and QEMU 2.0.0 (Debian 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.5).
When attempting to nova rescue an instance, the instance boots with updated libvirt XML but ends up booting to the old, non-rescue disk (second disk in XML) 80% of the time. Occasionally after several reboots (for example, via ctrl+alt+del in VNC) I can randomly get it to boot to the rescue disk. The XML looks like this: <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/var/lib/nova/instances/INSTANCE_ID/disk.rescue'/> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> <alias name='virtio-disk0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/var/lib/nova/instances/INSTANCE_ID/disk'/> <target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/> <alias name='virtio-disk1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </disk> And the command line: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name instance-00000a65 -S -machine pc-i440fx-trusty,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 512 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid e9019a9b-03de-47e9-b372-673305ea5c66 -smbios type=1,manufacturer=OpenStack Foundation,product=OpenStack Nova,version=2014.1.2,serial=44454c4c-3700-1056-8053-b6c04f504e31,uuid=e9019a9b-03de-47e9-b372-673305ea5c66 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/instance-00000a65.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -no-hpet -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive file=/var/lib/nova/instances/e9019a9b-03de-47e9-b372-673305ea5c66/disk.rescue,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=writeback -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1 -drive file=/var/lib/nova/instances/e9019a9b-03de-47e9-b372-673305ea5c66/disk,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=qcow2,cache=writeback -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,id=virtio-disk1 -netdev tap,fd=35,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=36 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=fa:16:3e:ac:13:08,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev file,id=charserial0,path=/var/lib/nova/instances/e9019a9b-03de-47e9-b372-673305ea5c66/console.log -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev pty,id=charserial1 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial1,id=serial1 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -k en-us -device cirrus-vga,id=video0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 So everything looks like it should boot to the rescue disk (strict boot on and boot index set for the desired device), yet usually it still ends up booting to the old OS. I tried manually specifying boot index on second device to 2 and it still fails. Any ideas what's going on with this? All the packages are also up-to-date on the host node; in this case the VM has Ubuntu 14.04 OS but I don't think that affects the boot order. Thanks, - Favyen Bastani _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators