anvil/docs/source/topics/qanda.rst

Questions and Answers

How do I get program usage?

$ ./smithy --help

How do I run a specific OpenStack milestone?

OpenStack milestones have tags set in the git repo. Anvil also has the same tags so please checkout the corresponding tag for anvil to match the OpenStack milestone you wish to use.

OMG the images take forever to download! ----------------------------------------

Sometimes the images that will be uploaded to glance take a long time to download and extract and upload.

To adjust this edit conf/components/glance.yaml and change the following:

...
# List of images to download and install into glance.
image_urls:
- http://launchpad.net/cirros/trunk/0.3.0/+download/cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-uec.tar.gz
- http://smoser.brickies.net/ubuntu/ttylinux-uec/ttylinux-uec-amd64-11.2_2.6.35-15_1.tar.gz

To something like the following (shortening that list):

image_urls:
- http://launchpad.net/cirros/trunk/0.3.0/+download/cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-uec.tar.gz

This will remove the larger ubuntu image and just use the smaller cirros image (which should not take to long to upload). Note that repeated downloads occur due to the fact that the files inside the image do not match the name of what is installed into glance (this can be avoided by completely disabling the image uploading, see the persona file for the flag for this).