Instance fails to spawn in RHEL

> --bridge_interface=br100

should be set to an actual interface. You will probably have to change the value of the interface in networks table as well. Use eth0 or something along those lines.

On Jan 30, 2012, at 10:35 PM, R. Krishna Kumar wrote:

> New question #186371 on OpenStack Compute (nova):
> https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+question/186371
>
> We are trying to launch instances through openstack. We have installed openstack (2011.3-dev) on RHEL 6.1. After following the installation steps mentioned, we tried to launch instances through the euca-run-instances command. The machine went from scheduling state to networking state where it failed with the message:
>
> Failed to add interface: device br100 is a bridge device itself; can't enslave a bridge device to a bridge device.
>
> We searched the internet for configuring the network ports in the RHEL machine with no luck. Can somebody give us the contents of ifcfg-br100, ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 (if present). Following are the files we used:
>
> /etc/nova/nova.conf:
> --dhcpbridge_flagfile=/etc/nova/nova.conf
> --dhcpbridge=/usr/bin/nova-dhcpbridge
> --state_path=/var/lib/nova
> --lock_path=/var/lib/nova/tmp
> --verbose=false
> --logdir=/var/log/nova
> --ec2_url=http://127.0.0.1:8773/services/Cloud
> --s3_host=127.0.0.1
> --cc_host=127.0.0.1
> --rabbit_host=127.0.0.1
> --sql_connection=mysql://nova:nova@127.0.0.1/nova
> --auth_driver=nova.auth.dbdriver.DbDriver
> --network_manager=nova.network.manager.FlatManager
> --flat_network_bridge=br100
> --bridge_interface=br100
> --flat_injected=true
> --flat_network_dhcp_start=192.168.1.2
> --public_interface=eth0
> --fixed_range=192.168.1.0/25
> --network_size=255
> --scheduler_driver=nova.scheduler.zone.ZoneScheduler
> --node_availability_zone=novaRHEL
> --image_service=nova.image.glance.GlanceImageService
> --glance_api_servers=127.0.0.1:9292
> --connection_type=vmwareapi
> --vmwareapi_host_ip=10.207.228.71
> --vmwareapi_host_username=root
> --vmwareapi_host_password=Openstack@123
> --vmwareapi_wsdl_loc=http://127.0.0.1:8080/wsdl/vim25/vimService.wsdl
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br100
> DEVICE=br100
> BOOTPROTO=static
> ONBOOT=yes
> IPADDR=192.168.1.1
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
> TYPE=Bridge
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> DEVICE="eth0"
> BOOTPROTO="static"
> NM_CONTROLLED="yes"
> ONBOOT="yes"
> HWADDR=00:0C:29:FE:8A:88
> TYPE=Ethernet
> NAME="System eth0"
> #UUID=5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03
> IPADDR=10.207.230.43
> PREFIX=22
> GATEWAY="10.207.228.1"
> NETMASK="255.255.252.0"
> DNS1="10.201.50.100"
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
> DEVICE=eth1
> NM_CONTROLLED=no
> ONBOOT=yes
> BRIDGE=br100
>
> Any help would be highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
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