An instance spawned via the Openstack dashboard has the state 'Error'

[nirmal070125]

I ran your vagrant scripts and everything was fine. But none of my instances were successful, all are in Error state. Any tips?

[chris-rock]

This really depends on your environment. In most cases, your box is just too small. Therefore I recommend using a bigger flavor with your image. Which OS are you using?

[nirmal070125]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the quick response. Can you please tell me the VM configurations (RAM, disk) you usually use? Also, by default there's an image in the installed Openstack; cirros-0.3.1-x86_64-uec, may I know whether I can use it please?

[chris-rock]

I am using the defualt configuration with vagrant and virtualbox on mac. Therefore a clean vagrant up on this project works on my machine. To ssh into the cirrus box just do the following:

vagrant ssh
# SSH to your VM when your VM is ACTIVE
# user: cirros
# pwd:  cubswin:)
ssh cirros@{put_private_ip_here}

[nirmal070125]

Hi Chris,

Problem is none of the instances are becoming active. I am also using the default configuration and running on Mint (virtual box and vagrant). Is there a log file which I can examine ?

[chris-rock]

@nirmal070125 This is hard to say. This really depends on the server. There is no simple answer, because the dashboard is not enough to figure out the real error.

I assume even cirrus is not working? You could try to increase the flavour.