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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

A number of things could be going wrong, but I did notice this bug recently:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1086352

I think this only affects installs on old versions of xp. Perhaps there is some incompatibility between the virtio drivers and windows server 2012?

Vish

On Dec 18, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Joe Warren-Meeks <joe.warren.meeks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I've created a windows 2012 image and uploaded it ok. Pretty much following this example:
> 
> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/creating-a-windows-image.html
> 
> When I go to launch an instance, it works ok and nova list and nova show look healthy.
> 
> If I VNC to it as soon as it starts to boot, I get to see the BIOS and then the new Windows logo, but then the screen goes black and nothing seems to happen. Sending ctrl-alt-del elicits no response and it doesn't look like the network has DHCP'ed either.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this and if so, any idea what I can do to fix it?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>  -- joe.
> 
> 
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