Description of problem: nova does not query keystone to learn about glance (image service) deployments, requires glance_{host,port} to be set in nova.conf Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openstack-nova-2012.2.1-2.el6ost.noarch Steps to Reproduce: 1. install and configure glance in keystone 2. install nova on a separate host 3. try 'nova image-list' Actual results: in api.log > CommunicationError: Error communicating with http://$HOSTNAME:9292 [Errno 111] ECONNREFUSED Expected results: nova discovers glance installations via keystone
This was discussed some time ago upstream[1] but no changes yet AFAICT [1] https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg13288.html
This no longer appears to be required in current releases.