Re: [Openstack] Networking issues for openstack on XCP

2012-11-16 Thread Yan Zhai
Hi Robert, thanks for reply. Currently I am just looking for a way to bring it up for internal trial, so if Quantum is better I will move to that. The only reason that I am still asking for questions about nova-network is because of the document order: I am setting things following the install do

Re: [Openstack] Networking issues for openstack on XCP

2012-11-16 Thread Robert Garron
Yan, In my opinion, if you are going to spend all the time learning a new product -- i.e. nova network vs quantum. And if you are only testing a concept, I would spend it upon Folsom and move from Essex and/or nova network and nova storage. Quantum eases many of the issues Nova network has

[Openstack] Networking issues for openstack on XCP

2012-11-16 Thread Yan Zhai
Hi, I am trying a proof of concept install of openstack on xen cloud platform. However, I am a little confused about the network part in Folsom. My architecture: 1 Controller node: no Xen, only Ubuntu 12.04, everything for openstack service except for nova-compute 2 Compute node: X

[Openstack] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Nov 9-16)

2012-11-16 Thread Stefano Maffulli
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Re: [Openstack] Command to find out list of compute nodes

2012-11-16 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
This is before nova has parsed the log config options, but you would think upstart would log the error message somewhere. Perhaps a bug against the ubuntu package? Vish On Nov 16, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Ahmed Al-Mehdi wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to add, it would have been really helpful if nov

Re: [Openstack] cannot launch the cirros-0.3.0-i386-uec cloud instance

2012-11-16 Thread alan yang
> image=/home/alan/devstack/files/images/cirros-0.3.0.i386-uec/cirros-0.3.0-i386-blank.img cirros-0.3.0-i386-disk.img allows the VM instance to be launched successfully. I have devstack installed on my laptop vmware workstation 7 with ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine. The openstack launched cirros in

Re: [Openstack] Command to find out list of compute nodes

2012-11-16 Thread Ahmed Al-Mehdi
Hello, I would like to add, it would have been really helpful if nova-compute put some error log message in /var/log/nova/nova-compute.log or /var/log/syslog. Is that an enhancement worth filing against nova-compute? Regards, Ahmed. On 11/16/12 1:40 PM, "Ahmed Al-Mehdi" wrote: >Hello, > >I r

Re: [Openstack] Command to find out list of compute nodes

2012-11-16 Thread Ahmed Al-Mehdi
Hello, I resolved the issue, and I feel really silly about the root cause. Thanks to a suggestion from a member of the community, running the exact command from /etc/init/nova-compute.conf manually revealed the issue. root@sonoma:~# date; exec su -s /bin/sh -c "exec nova-compute --config-file=/et

Re: [Openstack] Command to find out list of compute nodes

2012-11-16 Thread Ahmed Al-Mehdi
I ran nova-compute in the foreground, and I don't see any error messages, only DEBUG/INFO/AUDIT messages. I also don't see nova-compute exiting when run in foreground. I am currently sifting through the log messages spit out by nova-compute. I have also copied the log messages onto pastebin - ht

[Openstack] Information needed on the proposed firewall framework

2012-11-16 Thread Narayanan, Krishnaprasad
Hallo All, A week before, I was looking for information regarding the availability of a firewall framework (see here) that handles outgoing connections from the VM and for which I received a reply from the forum pointing to this link - http

Re: [Openstack] Looking for a good Folsom + Quantum guide

2012-11-16 Thread Dan Wendlandt
Note: use network definitions describe here: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-network/admin/content/connectivity.html With an overlay type deployment using NVP or OVS plugins you can choose to consolidate the "data network" and "management network" and use the same IP adress for both type

Re: [Openstack] Looking for a good Folsom + Quantum guide

2012-11-16 Thread Samuel Winchenbach
I was attempting to use VLAN/2NICs because that is that I am most familiar with and I do not currently have 3 network cards (I have Infiniband, but it is not currently hooked up). I am a little unclear why GRE requires 3 network cards, probably because I am very unfamiliar with openvswitch. Thanks

Re: [Openstack] Command to find out list of compute nodes

2012-11-16 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
nova-compute is crashing for some reason. Try running sudo nova-compute --config-file=/etc/nova/nova.conf that should start it in the foreground so you can see any error messages that might pop up. Vish On Nov 16, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Ahmed Al-Mehdi wrote: > Hello, > > The two servers time cloc

Re: [Openstack] Command to find out list of compute nodes

2012-11-16 Thread Ahmed Al-Mehdi
I have time sync'ed the control and compute node. Still see the "XXX". I copied the ntp.conf file from the control-node and compute-node onto paste bin - http://pastebin.com/HsnzcRHr. There are a few things that I find really confusing: 1. Why does "nova-manage service-list" display the service

Re: [Openstack] Volume handling

2012-11-16 Thread John Griffith
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Nicolae Paladi wrote: > Hi, > > this is likely an RTFM question, but I haven't found any relevant 'FM' so > I decided > to ask on the mailing list before digging into the code: > > How are volumes mapped to the instances after they are restarted? > In terms of a

Re: [Openstack] Command to find out list of compute nodes

2012-11-16 Thread Ahmed Al-Mehdi
Hello, The two servers time clock is off by 2 seconds, so obvious not time synced. I will work on getting that fixed. The compute node is ahead by about 2 seconds. Would that cause such a problem? Regards, Ahmed. On 11/16/12 8:56 AM, "Narayanan, Krishnaprasad" wrote: >Hi Ahmed, > >If I und

Re: [Openstack] Command to find out list of compute nodes

2012-11-16 Thread Ahmed Al-Mehdi
Hi Krishnaprasad, Yes, there are log files present in /var/log/nova/ folder, and but no entries created in either nova-comptue.log or nova-manage.log file on that node. By status of the daemons, do you mean the following info: root@bodega:~# nova-manage service list Binary Host

Re: [Openstack] Command to find out list of compute nodes

2012-11-16 Thread Narayanan, Krishnaprasad
Hi Ahmed, If I understand the email correctly from Gong Yong Sheng, he is asking you to check the status of ntp server on control and compute nodes. Thanks Krishnaprasad Narayanan -Original Message- From: gong yong sheng [mailto:gong...@linux.vnet.ibm.com] Sent: Freitag, 16. November 2

Re: [Openstack] [openstack-dev] Fwd: [keystone] Tokens representing authorization to projects/tenants in the Keystone V3 API

2012-11-16 Thread Dolph Mathews
I'm just pointing out that the same data used for validating belongsTo on the server-side is included in the response body (assuming a GET and not HEAD). -Dolph On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Jorge Williams < jorge.willi...@rackspace.com> wrote: > (inline) > > On Nov 15, 2012, at 2:06 PM,

Re: [Openstack] Command to find out list of compute nodes

2012-11-16 Thread gong yong sheng
Can u check if the time is synchronized? Times on compute node and control node should be synchronized. On 11/16/2012 12:28 PM, Ahmed Al-Mehdi wrote: Hi Narayanan, Awesome, thank you. There reason I was not seeing the "nova-compute" listed is because it did not launch on the compute node. I d

Re: [Openstack] Command to find out list of compute nodes

2012-11-16 Thread Narayanan, Krishnaprasad
Hi Ahmed, Could you check whether the log files are present in the folder /var/log/nova/nova-compute.log on the compute node? Can you also confirm regarding the status of all the necessary daemons related to nova and other components deployed on the cloud controller node? Thanks Krishnaprasad

[Openstack] Volume handling

2012-11-16 Thread Nicolae Paladi
Hi, this is likely an RTFM question, but I haven't found any relevant 'FM' so I decided to ask on the mailing list before digging into the code: How are volumes mapped to the instances after they are restarted? How can a volume created earlier be identified to be attached to a newly spawned inta