When the cinder volume is not on the same hos the following exception occurs.
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 ERROR nova.compute.manager [req-4025681f-b5b6-49df-82b7-b16b7a988b3a demo demo] [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] Instance failed to spawn
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] Traceback (most recent call last):
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/compute/manager.py", line 1416, in _spawn
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] block_device_info)
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/vmwareapi/driver.py", line 605, in spawn
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] admin_password, network_info, block_device_info)
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/vmwareapi/vmops.py", line 446, in spawn
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] self._default_root_device)
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/vmwareapi/volumeops.py", line 461, in attach_root_volume
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] device = self._get_vmdk_backed_disk_device(vm_ref, data)
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] File "/opt/stack/nova/nova/virt/vmwareapi/volumeops.py", line 391, in _get_vmdk_backed_disk_device
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] raise volume_util.StorageError(_("Unable to find volume"))
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768] StorageError: Unable to find volume
2013-09-10 23:57:41.383 TRACE nova.compute.manager [instance: 7034fed5-10a7-4fcb-89d5-0a4bac46c768]
Fix proposed to branch: master /review. openstack. org/46027
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