Attaching a CD device to an instance in Openstack

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0

Issue

  • What I need is to boot from a regular cinder image, but I also need that CRDOM image to be present at the boot time. The OS expects to have it to be able to read from it information for initial configuration.

Resolution

  • Starting an instance with a volume attached as a cdrom is possible by using the --block-device option in the nova boot command.
--block-device key1=value1[,key2=value2...]
                        Block device mapping with the keys: id=image_id,
                        snapshot_id or volume_id, source=source type (image,
                        snapshot, volume or blank), dest=destination type of
                        the block device (volume or local), bus=device's bus,
                        device=name of the device (e.g. vda, xda, ...),
                        size=size of the block device in GB, format=device
                        will be formatted (e.g. swap, ext3, ntfs, ...),
                        bootindex=integer used for ordering the boot disks,
                        type=device type (e.g. disk, cdrom, ...) and
                        shutdown=shutdown behaviour (either preserve or
                        remove).

  • Start with 2 cinder volumes that have images already loaded into them.
# cinder list
+--------------------------------------+-----------+---------------+------+-------------+----------+--------------------------------------+
|                  ID                  |   Status  |  Display Name | Size | Volume Type | Bootable |             Attached to              |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+---------------+------+-------------+----------+--------------------------------------+
| bda9af3a-c2f5-4b3a-828e-7f3dedcab3a8 | available | 01177474-test |  20  |     None    |   true   |                                      |
| c41bfd82-4705-4f93-8d09-9907901aa83d | available |               |  5   |     None    |   true   |                                      |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+---------------+------+-------------+----------+--------------------------------------+
  • Then launch a new instance with both volumes attached. Besure to specifiy the type=cdrom for the volume that contains the cdrom iso.
# nova boot --flavor m1.small --nic net-id=e23a3b20-604d-44af-a3eb-8f71fb72e2cc --block-device id=c41bfd82-4705-4f93-8d09-9907901aa83d,source=volume,dest=volume,bus=ide,device=/dev/vdb,size=5,type=cdrom,bootindex=1 --block-device source=volume,id=c4a48716-ee22-4939-898b-03e0ff3a2c65,dest=volume,device=/dev/vda,size=17,bootindex=0  test2 --user-data rhel65
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Property                             | Value                                                                                            |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| OS-DCF:diskConfig                    | MANUAL                                                                                           |
| OS-EXT-AZ:availability_zone          | nova                                                                                             |
| OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:host                 | -                                                                                                |
| OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:hypervisor_hostname  | -                                                                                                |
| OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:instance_name        | instance-00000018                                                                                |
| OS-EXT-STS:power_state               | 0                                                                                                |
| OS-EXT-STS:task_state                | scheduling                                                                                       |
| OS-EXT-STS:vm_state                  | building                                                                                         |
| OS-SRV-USG:launched_at               | -                                                                                                |
| OS-SRV-USG:terminated_at             | -                                                                                                |
| accessIPv4                           |                                                                                                  |
| accessIPv6                           |                                                                                                  |
| adminPass                            | kbRDtmuyw38Z                                                                                     |
| config_drive                         |                                                                                                  |
| created                              | 2014-10-09T21:20:31Z                                                                             |
| flavor                               | m1.small (2)                                                                                     |
| hostId                               |                                                                                                  |
| id                                   | fec129f3-64a2-4bc4-ad37-17a31696765c                                                             |
| image                                | Attempt to boot from volume - no image supplied                                                  |
| key_name                             | -                                                                                                |
| metadata                             | {}                                                                                               |
| name                                 | test2                                                                                            |
| os-extended-volumes:volumes_attached | [{"id": "c41bfd82-4705-4f93-8d09-9907901aa83d"}, {"id": "c4a48716-ee22-4939-898b-03e0ff3a2c65"}] |
| progress                             | 0                                                                                                |
| security_groups                      | default                                                                                          |
| status                               | BUILD                                                                                            |
| tenant_id                            | 2382fa1ffc364cbc803b650aa7c39ed9                                                                 |
| updated                              | 2014-10-09T21:20:31Z                                                                             |
| user_id                              | 22c672053b264aecb5ceb1c982eaa271                                                                 |
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  • The iso, will be attached as a cd in the instance
-bash-4.1# lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0     11:0    1   5G  0 rom  
vda    252:0    0  17G  0 disk 
└─vda1 252:1    0  15G  0 part /

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