Nova/RemoteDebugging

Remote Debugging in Nova

You can use a remote debugger to attach to nova services by specifying the host and port as command line arguments. For example

/usr/local/bin/nova-compute --config-file /etc/nova/nova.conf --remote_debug-host 172.16.245.1 --remote_debug-port 1234

In order to do this you need to have a remote debug server - this wiki describes how to use remote debugging with pycharm. You need a commercial license to do remote debugging with pycharm.

Configuring pycharm for remote debugging

Start pycharm and create a remote debug runtime configuration. Change the host and port to your IP address and the port you want to use. The path map shows how to translate the path in your nova environment to the path that your debug server understands. The example here shows /opt/stack/nova mapped to /Volume/OpenStack/nova. I have used samba to mount my /opt/stack directory on my debug host at mount point /Volume/Openstack. You need this or you will not be able to see your code and set breakpoints.

Pycharm Remote Debug Configuration

Running the debugger in pycharm

Once you have the configuration done, press the bug to start the debugger

Start the debugger

Debugger waiting for connection

You should see the debugger waiting for connection

Waiting for debug connection

Preparing the client

First you need to copy the pydev client script to the environment where you are running nova services.