Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Creating instances with custom UUIDs

2013-04-04 Thread Joe Gordon
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Chris Behrens wrote: > I'm having a hard time understanding the original problem. nova boot > should return in milliseconds. There's no blocking on provisioning. > > The only thing that could block is DB access, as AFAIK the RPC to the scheduler is still pass by

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Creating instances with custom UUIDs

2013-04-03 Thread Chris Behrens
I'm having a hard time understanding the original problem. nova boot should return in milliseconds. There's no blocking on provisioning. - Chris On Apr 3, 2013, at 8:32 PM, Rafael Rosa wrote: > API wise I was thinking about something like "nova boot > --custom-instance-uuid ABC..." or somet

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Creating instances with custom UUIDs

2013-04-03 Thread Rafael Rosa
API wise I was thinking about something like "nova boot --custom-instance-uuid ABC..." or something like that. To avoid problems with any current implementation I would set it to disabled by default and add a config option to enable it. As for collisions, my take is that if you're passing a custom

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Creating instances with custom UUIDs

2013-04-03 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Rafael Rosa wrote: > Hi, > > In our OpenStack installation we have an issue when creating new instances, > we need to execute some long running processes before calling "nova boot" > and the call blocks for the end user for a while. We would like to return > "immedi

[Openstack] [Nova] Creating instances with custom UUIDs

2013-04-03 Thread Rafael Rosa
Hi, In our OpenStack installation we have an issue when creating new instances, we need to execute some long running processes before calling "nova boot" and the call blocks for the end user for a while. We would like to return "immediately" to the caller with a final instance UUID and do the work