OpenStack 创建VM流程简单介绍__Newton版本

才疏学浅，若有不当之处敬请雅正, 本文适合刚刚开始看Nova源码的人，先把整个流程串一下，后面再详细介绍一下。

Nova 接收用户请求的入口：nova/api/compute/servers.py

nova/api/compute/servers.py

class ServersController(wsgi.Controller):
    """The Server API base controller class for the OpenStack API."""

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def create(self, req, body):
    """Creates a new server for a given user."""

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(instances, resv_id) = self.compute_api.create(context,
                inst_type,
                image_uuid,
                display_name=name,
                display_description=description,
                availability_zone=availability_zone,
                forced_host=host, forced_node=node,
                metadata=server_dict.get('metadata', {}),
                admin_password=password,
                requested_networks=requested_networks,
                check_server_group_quota=True,
                **create_kwargs)
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跳转到nova/compute/api.py

class API(base.Base):

"""API for interacting with the compute manager."""

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def create(self,------------):
    """Provision instances, sending instance information to the
    scheduler.  The scheduler will determine where the instance(s)
    go and will handle creating the DB entries.

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return self._create_instance(
               context, instance_type,
               image_href, kernel_id, ramdisk_id,
               min_count, max_count,
               display_name, display_description,
               key_name, key_data, security_groups,
               availability_zone, user_data, metadata,
               injected_files, admin_password,
               access_ip_v4, access_ip_v6,
               requested_networks, config_drive,
               block_device_mapping, auto_disk_config,
               filter_properties=filter_properties,
               legacy_bdm=legacy_bdm,
               shutdown_terminate=shutdown_terminate,
               check_server_group_quota=check_server_group_quota)

跳转到本文件的_create_