Bug 1326000

Summary:	Unable to boot from volume when flavor disk too small
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	nalmond
Component:	openstack-nova	Assignee:	Eoghan Glynn <eglynn>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	nlevinki <nlevinki>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0 (Juno)	CC:	berrange, dasmith, eglynn, fwissing, kchamart, mbooth, nalmond, sbauza, sferdjao, sgordon, srevivo, vromanso
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Target Release:	6.0 (Juno)
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2016-05-05 15:29:31 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description nalmond 2016-04-11 14:39:07 UTC

Description of problem:
Unable to boot from a bootable volume that is larger than the volume size specified in the flavor.

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a bootable volume
2. Attempt to launch an instance with a flavor volume size smaller than the bootable volume

Actual results:
Instance fails to launch

Expected results:
Instance launches

Additional info:
There appears to be an upstream patch for Liberty, is it possible to backport this to OSP 6? https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1457517

Comment 4 Freddy Wissing 2016-04-22 12:02:10 UTC

Thank you.  

I have requested that info and will check back when I collect it.

Comment 5 nalmond 2016-05-02 22:24:20 UTC

Upgrading to at least openstack-nova-2014.2.3-35.el7ost seems to have resolved this issue.