Getting frustrated because your vEOS instance on Openstack won’t boot and gets stuck in the aboot prompt? Don’t worry. Just fix your image parameters.

All you need to do is enable ide for your image. First, find the uuid of your image:

root@controller1:~# glance image-list
+--------------------------------------+--------------+
| ID | Name |
+--------------------------------------+--------------+
| 59d9f0a1-1b08-41b3-b887-bf7a82860200 | vEOS |
+--------------------------------------+--------------+

Then, change the disk to ide:

root@controller1:~# glance image-update --property hw_disk_bus=ide 59d9f0a1-1b08-41b3-b887-bf7a82860200
+------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Property | Value |
+------------------+--------------------------------------+
| checksum | 32b0155af13128d9934e8d0d73ece47f |
| container_format | bare |
| created_at | 2017-11-17T01:06:55Z |
| disk_format | vmdk |
| hw_disk_bus | ide |
| id | 59d9f0a1-1b08-41b3-b887-bf7a82860200 |
| min_disk | 0 |
| min_ram | 0 |
| name | vEOS |
| owner | 51272a68337a4370998873b129911cd8 |
| protected | False |
| size | 315752448 |
| status | active |
| tags | [] |
| updated_at | 2017-11-17T01:07:27Z |
| virtual_size | None |
| visibility | public |
+------------------+--------------------------------------+

And you’re done!

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