Viewing console while launching a VDI instances causes error status s error status

[Tzach Shefi]

Description of problem: If you access an instance's console while launching an a VDI image, instance status: error. Ran this a few times if however you wait until instance has completed booting before accessing console it boots up fine. This doesn't happen with Cirros QCOW.

VDI image used, must be uncompressed:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/virtualboximage/dsl-4.2.5-x86.7z

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 6.5
openstack-nova-compute-2014.1.1-2.el6ost.noarch

How reproducible:
Every time, tested three times.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In my case Glance uses a Gluster share, don't think it's related.
2. Upload VDI image to Glance.
3. Launch an instance from VDI image.
4. Before instances completes boot process, go to instance's console.
5. Instance's failed to boot, status error.
6. Repeat above steps, this time wait for instance to complete boot process then go to console, status is active.

Actual results:

Failed to boot VDI instance, when accessing instance's console before instance is active.

On compute.log instance ID 13b23f83-9587-4068-a6d1-d2b8034d0e80 status error, while instance ID 542bfd5e-866e-4af4-ab59-f1ecb86bfa2f booted up fine.

Expected results:

VDI instance should boot up even if you look at console during boot process, just like Cirros qcow.

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

seems like a good candidate for a functional test

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

Can you provide relevant snippets of the other logs like the vnc server log and nova api when this is happening.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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