On 12/30/2012 04:25 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > On 12/27/2012 02:39 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: >> No. > > Pity - I'd just gotten used to that mechanism :)
The one constant in OpenStack development is change, as well you know! ;) >> Use nova boot --availability_zone=nova:hostname where nova: is your >> availability zone and hostname is the hostname of the compute node you >> wish to put the instance on. >> >> Note this is an admin-only ability by default and can oversubscribe the >> compute node the instance goes on. > > Will it use the same /var/lib/nova/sch_hosts/<id> mechanism to allow > mere mortals to use it like the onhost stuff did? Vish and others would know more, but AFAIK, the specifying of --availability_zone=nova:<hostname> is an admin-only operation. I believe the reasoning is that a cloud is a cloud, and hosts should be of no consequence to a cloud user -- they shouldn't know need or want to know what physical machine a guest ends up on. Best, -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
