When I'm trying to boot instances on a specific host (sleepy) by issuing:
nova boot --image mybucket/image.manifest.xml --flavor m1.tiny --key_name mykey --hint force_hosts=sleepy test-vm
my VMs always seem to start on a random host instead on the one I targeted. Does anybody know why that might be? I'm using Essex and the simple scheduler.
My user is admin (I sourced /var/lib/nova/novarc), I also have --allow_admin_api=true in my nova.conf file. The only mention of filter in my /var/log/nova-scheduler.log is
u'filter_properties': {u'scheduler_hints': {u'force_hosts': u'sleepy'}}.
This file also says u'_context_is_admin': True and u'_context_roles': [u'admin']