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[Angelo Olivera <aolivera@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Malek Mushleh <mmusleh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running into an issue when I try to run an instance of the cirros image as specified here:
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/install/yum/content/running-an-instance.html
>
> I am unable to ping it, and when I connect VNC to the running instance, it shows the following:
>
> Starting SeaBIOS (version 0.6.0)
>
> Booting from Hard Disk....
> Boot Failed: could not read the boot disk.

What command did you use to upload the cirros image? Did you forget to
pass the --disk-format=qcow2 flag?

Recommended read: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance/formats.html

-- 
Angelo