Problem on running "nova boot myserver"

[Pádraig Brady]

On 08/01/2012 03:11 AM, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I'm following;
> Getting started with OpenStack on Fedora 17
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStack_on_Fedora_17
> 
> learning OpenStack.  
> 
> 
> I'm stuck here:-
> 
> Launch an instance: 
> $ nova boot myserver --flavor 2 --key_name mykey \
>> --image $(glance index | grep f16-jeos | awk '{print $1}')
> usage: nova boot [--flavor <flavor>] [--image <image>] [--meta <key=value>]
>                  [--file <dst-path=src-path>] [--key_name <key_name>]
>                  [--user_data <user-data>]
>                  [--availability_zone <availability-zone>]
>                  [--security_groups <security_groups>]
>                  [--block_device_mapping <dev_name=mapping>]
>                  [--hint <key=value>]
>                  [--nic <net-id=net-uuid,v4-fixed-ip=ip-addr>]
>                  [--config-drive <value>] [--poll]
>                  <name>
> error: argument --image: expected one argument
> Try `nova help boot' for more information.

Looks like there are multiple images of that name in glance?
Perhaps you could delete one or just select the first
by using this instead:

 nova boot myserver --flavor 2 --key_name mykey \
 --image $(glance index | sed -n '/f16-jeos/{s/ .*//p;q}')

cheers,
Pádraig.