** Changed in: nova
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
** Changed in: nova
Milestone: None => kilo-3
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1275311
Title:
Libvirt BIOS bootmenu should be enabled
Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
Fix Released
Bug description:
We currently do not enable the "bootmenu" option within Libvirt. It
would be beneficial to do so, to allow for some more flexibility when
installing a new OS from ISO. Having the bootmenu available would
allow for the following:
1. Upload ISO image to Glance.
2. Upload "empty" RAW image to Glance.
3. Create a new Cinder volume, populating it with the ISO from #1.
4. Create a new instance, using the empty RAW from #2.
5. Attach the CInder volume from #3.
At this point, the instance has 2 disks attached: the root disk (vda)
and volume (vdb). In this case, we want to boot vdb, so that we can
utilize the ISO to install an OS on vda. There is currently no way to
do this, short of passing block-device-mapping, which is not the same
end result. Enabling the bootmenu would prompt the user to hit F12
and select the desired boot device (vdb in this case).
This is an extremely simple change which provides a non-external
option for creating Nova compatible images.
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