Added docstring to explain usage of reserved keyword argument

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/nova/compute/api.py b/nova/compute/api.py
index e045ef3de..4e2944bb7 100644
--- a/nova/compute/api.py
+++ b/nova/compute/api.py
@@ -383,10 +383,6 @@ class API(base.Base):
         If you are changing this method, be sure to update both
         call paths.
         """
-        instance = dict(launch_index=num, **base_options)
-        instance = self.db.instance_create(context, instance)
-        instance_id = instance['id']
-
         elevated = context.elevated()
         if security_group is None:
             security_group = ['default']
@@ -400,6 +396,10 @@ class API(base.Base):
                     security_group_name)
             security_groups.append(group['id'])
 
+        instance = dict(launch_index=num, **base_options)
+        instance = self.db.instance_create(context, instance)
+        instance_id = instance['id']
+
         for security_group_id in security_groups:
             self.db.instance_add_security_group(elevated,
                                                 instance_id,
@@ -877,6 +877,7 @@ class API(base.Base):
                 'image': 'image_ref',
                 'name': 'display_name',
                 'instance_name': 'name',
+                'tenant_id': 'project_id',
                 'recurse_zones': None,
                 'flavor': _remap_flavor_filter,
                 'fixed_ip': _remap_fixed_ip_filter}