I'm able to reproduce this with 'euca-run-instances -n 4'. But the libvirt instances do in fact start.
virsh -c lxc:/// list shows the, but euca-describe-instances shows them pending. nova-compute.log shows: 2011-09-27 16:06:23,110 ERROR nova.exception [-] Uncaught exception (nova.exception): TRACE: Traceback (most recent call last): (nova.exception): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/exception.py", line 98, in wrapped (nova.exception): TRACE: return f(*args, **kw) (nova.exception): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 454, in run_instance (nova.exception): TRACE: self._run_instance(context, instance_id, **kwargs) (nova.exception): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 432, in _run_instance (nova.exception): TRACE: current_power_state = self._get_power_state(context, instance) (nova.exception): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/compute/manager.py", line 190, in _get_power_state (nova.exception): TRACE: return self.driver.get_info(instance['name'])["state"] (nova.exception): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py", line 1196, in get_info (nova.exception): TRACE: (state, max_mem, mem, num_cpu, cpu_time) = virt_dom.info() (nova.exception): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1059, in info (nova.exception): TRACE: if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virDomainGetInfo() failed', dom=self) (nova.exception): TRACE: libvirtError: internal error Unable to get cgroup for instance-00000008 (nova.rpc): TRACE: Traceback (most recent call last): (nova.rpc): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/rpc/impl_kombu.py", line 620, in _process_data (nova.rpc): TRACE: rval = node_func(context=ctxt, **node_args) (nova.rpc): TRACE: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/exception.py", line 129, in wrapped (nova.rpc): TRACE: raise Error(str(e)) (nova.rpc): TRACE: Error: internal error Unable to get cgroup for instance-00000008 (nova.rpc): TRACE: 2011-09-27 16:06:23,220 INFO nova.virt.libvirt_conn [-] Instance instance-00000008 spawned successfully. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/842845 Title: problems starting multiple lxc instances concurrently To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/842845/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs