On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 15:40 -0400, Lorin Hochstein wrote: > From the python-novaclient tests, it looks like "nova reset-state > <instance>" puts an instance into the error state or (with the > --active) flag into the active state:
That is correct. > What's the use case for resetting an instance to the error state? Is > the idea to do: > > > nova reset-state <instance> > nova delete <instance> Yes. At the time, it was not possible to delete an instance that had its task_state set to a non-None value. A subsequent patch I contributed fixed that behavior, however; the problem was that compute_api.delete() and compute_api.soft_delete() had divergent state requirements, where the former was allowed from any state (the desired behavior) and the latter only allowed from vm_state ACTIVE, ERROR, or one other (I forget what it was) and task_state None. The reset-state API is one of the admin_actions extension, by the way; the goal of that default configuration was to prevent gratuitous state changes while still allowing administrators to help users who were having problems deleting instances. -- Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitch...@rackspace.com> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
