How to autostart openstack instance or VM

Configuring Instances to Start Automatically in OpenStack

Open the nova.conf file & find resume_guests_state_on_host_boot property

vi /etc/nova/nova.conf

# resume_guests_state_on_host_boot=false

# Set the value of the property to true:

resume_guests_state_on_host_boot=true

systemctl restart openstack-nova-compute

Method 2:

You can Set the 'autostart' flag so the vm/domain is started upon boot.

You can use virsh command just type virsh on terminal & get help for all available option

To list all available domain

virsh

To Domain list.

virsh domstats

virsh net-list

Here is no auto restart VM found

Set  'autostart' flag

virsh autostart instance-00000001

For autostart, you need to use available KVM functionality.

Part 1: OpenStack Mitaka 5 installation in CentOS 7



Part 2: Network Configuration in OpenStack



Part 3: Network & Router configuration using Dashboard



Part 4: Create Project, Image, Volume & Instance



Part 5: Instance Snapshot & Boot from Volume



Part 6: Autostart OpenStack Instance Setting



Part 7: Extend Volume Size