Comment 10 for bug 1061665

There is an explanatory comment on the review for the doc update but we have not back ported to Essex docs - see

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/15983/

Anne Gentle
Content Stacker
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On Nov 17, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Christian Parpart <email address hidden> wrote:

> so what is the actual syntax for OpenStack Essex?
> I also did not find anything in the docs (maybe I am blind) that you can specify a hostname as part of the availability zone's name.
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> Title:
> Filter scheduler not respecting the force_hosts hint
>
> Status in OpenStack Manuals:
> Fix Committed
> Status in “nova” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When I'm trying to boot instances on a specific host (sleepy) by
> issuing:
>
> nova boot --image mybucket/image.manifest.xml --flavor m1.tiny
> --key_name mykey --hint force_hosts=sleepy test-vm
>
> my VMs always seem to start on a random host instead on the one I
> targeted. I'm using Essex and the filter scheduler (my nova.conf
> contains
> `compute_scheduler_driver=nova.scheduler.filter_scheduler.FilterScheduler`).
>
> My user is admin (I sourced /var/lib/nova/novarc), I also have
> --allow_admin_api=true in my nova.conf file. The only mention of
> filter in my /var/log/nova-scheduler.log is
>
>> u'filter_properties': {u'scheduler_hints': {u'force_hosts':
> u'sleepy'}}.
>
> This file also says u'_context_is_admin': True and u'_context_roles':
> [u'admin']
>
> Here is the full request grabbed from the nova-scheduler.log file:
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/1260083/
>
> The matter was also discussed in this AskUbuntu question:
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/169625/why-cant-i-get-nova-openstack-
> to-use-a-specific-host
>
> I'm running Ubuntu server 12.04 and nova-scheduler version
> 2012.1-0ubuntu2.
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