diff --git a/doc/source/admin/openstack-operations/managing-instances.rst b/doc/source/admin/openstack-operations/managing-instances.rst index 2b9ac73bcb..6b45df2220 100644 --- a/doc/source/admin/openstack-operations/managing-instances.rst +++ b/doc/source/admin/openstack-operations/managing-instances.rst @@ -237,23 +237,16 @@ such as cloud-init, to gain access to instance metadata. This is an alternative way of accessing the Nova EC2-style Metadata. To allow live migration of Nova instances, this forced provisioning -of the config (CD-ROM) drive needs either be turned off, or the format of +of the config (CD-ROM) drive needs to either be turned off, or the format of the configuration drive needs to be changed to a disk format like vfat, a format which both Linux and Windows instances can access. This work around is required for all Libvirt versions prior 1.2.17. -To turn off the forced provisioning of the config drive, add the following +To turn off the forced provisioning of and change the format of the +configuration drive to a hard disk style format, add the following override to the ``/etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml`` file: -.. code-block:: yaml - - nova_force_config_drive: False - -To change the format of the configuration drive, to a hard disk style format, -use the following configuration inside the same -``/etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml`` file: - .. code-block:: yaml nova_nova_conf_overrides: