Bug 1326000 - Unable to boot from volume when flavor disk too small
Summary: Unable to boot from volume when flavor disk too small
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openstack-nova
Version: 6.0 (Juno)
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: 6.0 (Juno)
Assignee: Eoghan Glynn
QA Contact: nlevinki
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-04-11 14:39 UTC by nalmond
Modified: 2019-10-10 11:50 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-05-05 15:29:31 UTC
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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.
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