Troubleshooting Instance Launch Failures in Red Hat OpenStack

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Overview

When a virtual machine instance fails to launch from the Red Hat OpenStack Dashboard, you might see only the word "Error" in the Dashboard's Status field. Likewise, the /var/log/nova/scheduler.log might simply show that the launch failed (ERROR state), but provide no further details.

Regardless of why an instance failed to launch, there are a ...

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