First, I create a bootable volume with "cinder create --image-id $image_id--display_name=boot_volume --display_description "test bootable volume" 2".
What I expect: the image has been copied into the volume.
Then, I boot a VM from this volume with "nova boot --flavor 2 --block-device-mapping vda=$vol_id --security_groups=default VM_test".
What I expect: the VM should be successfully booted and in healthy state.
Result:
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2013-03-19 18:04:33.814 DEBUG nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp [req-96f381c7-05cf-4d62-8021-d810f976bac9 admin admin] Making asynchronous cast on scheduler... from (pid=26395) cast /opt/stack/nova/nova/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py:621
2013-03-19 18:04:33.827 DEBUG nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp [req-96f381c7-05cf-4d62-8021-d810f976bac9 admin admin] UNIQUE_ID is ddffd4f390844d28a8de56e2799c0af3. from (pid=26395) _add_unique_id /opt/stack/nova/nova/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py:337
2013-03-19 18:04:33.895 ERROR nova.compute.manager [req-96f381c7-05cf-4d62-8021-d810f976bac9 admin admin] [instance: f9c678eb-0365-4a38-9ec6-c733a502aa51] Error: ['Traceback (most recent call last):\n', ' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 801, in _run_instance\n set_access_ip=set_access_ip)\n', ' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1058, in _spawn\n LOG.exception(_(\'Instance failed to spawn\'), instance=instance)\n', ' File "/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 24, in __exit__\n self.gen.next()\n', ' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1055, in _spawn\n block_device_info)\n', ' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 1510, in spawn\n block_device_info=block_device_info)\n', ' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 2326, in to_xml\n disk_info, rescue, block_device_info)\n', ' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 2244, in get_guest_config\n inst_type):\n', ' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 2088, in get_guest_storage_config\n info)\n', ' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py", line 943, in volume_driver_method\n return method(connection_info, *args, **kwargs)\n', ' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/openstack/common/lockutils.py", line 242, in inner\n retval = f(*args, **kwargs)\n', ' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/volume.py", line 245, in connect_volume\n self._run_iscsiadm(iscsi_properties, ("--rescan",))\n', ' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/volume.py", line 179, in _run_iscsiadm\n check_exit_code=check_exit_code)\n', ' File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/utils.py", line 239, in execute\n cmd=\' \'.join(cmd))\n', "ProcessExecutionError: Unexpected error while running command.\nCommand: sudo nova-rootwrap /etc/nova/rootwrap.conf iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.2010-10.org.openstack:volume-bdd314ba-d933-430d-bc81-e0718cb0f093 -p 9.119.148.202:3260 --rescan\nExit code: 255\nStdout: ''\nStderr: 'iscsiadm: No portal found.\\n'\n"]
2013-03-19 18:04:33.897 DEBUG nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp [req-96f381c7-05cf-4d62-8021-d810f976bac9 admin admin] Making synchronous call on conductor ... from (pid=26395) multicall /opt/stack/nova/nova/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py:584
2013-03-19 18:04:33.901 DEBUG nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp [req-96f381c7-05cf-4d62-8021-d810f976bac9 admin admin] MSG_ID is 637946a31c9b4a78b863bce28422e9b4 from (pid=26395) multicall /opt/stack/nova/nova/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py:587
2013-03-19 18:04:33.904 DEBUG nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp [req-96f381c7-05cf-4d62-8021-d810f976bac9 admin admin] UNIQUE_ID is d3ecc28b44d34557b2ab7083dd023f6f. from (pid=26395) _add_unique_id /opt/stack/nova/nova/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py:337
2013-03-19 18:04:40.415 DEBUG nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp [-] Making synchronous call on conductor ... from (pid=26395) multicall /opt/stack/nova/nova/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py:584
2013-03-19 18:04:40.415 DEBUG nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp [-] MSG_ID is c8efc365a6284a8bbaa2f01cda4e575e from (pid=26395) multicall /opt/stack/nova/nova/openstack/common/rpc/amqp.py:587
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I am not able to reproduce this which version are you using and which os?