<div dir="auto">I suggest that you have a look at the compute node logs when it fails to spawn. I suspect the problem is not Your images but something inside openstack</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If I was to guess it’s probably missing UEFI firmware packages :)</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 9:17 AM KK CHN <<a href="mailto:kkchn.in@gmail.com">kkchn.in@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr">Error : failed to perform requested operation on instance "WindowsVM "the instance has error status. Please try again later [Error exceeded maximum number of retries. Exhausted all hosts available for retrying build failures for instance e3d5c095-7d26-4b1e-89d1-d1a6e20a45041<br><div><br></div><div>I am trying to import a WIndows2012 Single disk VM, to OpenStack Ussuri, with glance and Qemu KVM.</div><div><br></div><div>In bare machine KVM I am able to import and boot this Windows VM which exported from rhevm hypervisor as vhdx image.</div><div>what I have done is </div><div><br></div><div>1. converted this windows image from vhdx to qcow2</div><div>2. root@MeghCtrol1:/home/cloud/CMOBB_APP#cirt-install --name WINDOWS --ram=1048 --vcups=1 --cpu host --hvm --dick path=BackUP2_CMAPP_disk_1_Windows_qcow2_imagefile,device=disk, format=qcow2,bus=virtio --graphics vnc --boot uefi</div><div><br></div><div>This uploaded the qcow2 image of WindowsVM to KVM hypervisor and its working. </div><div><br></div><div>But when I do importing to openstack unable to launch instance from the image .</div><div><br></div><div>These are the steps I performed..</div><div><br></div><div>1. openstack image create "WindowsVM" --file CMAPP_disk_1.qcow2 --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --public<br> <br>4.openstack image set --property hw_firmware_type=uefi --property os_secure_boot=required WindowsVM<br> <br>5.openstack image set --property hw_firmware_type=uefi --property hw_disk_bus=ide WindowsVM<br> <br>6.openstack image show WindowsVM<br><br>7. root@dmzcloud:/home/cloud# openstack image show WindowsVM|grep "properties"<br>| properties | hw_disk_bus='ide', hw_firmware_type='uefi', os_hash_algo='sha512',<br>os_hash_value='753ee596980409e1e72d6d020c8219c56a6ada8b43f634fb575c594a245725a398e45982c0a1ad72b3fc3451cde62cceb9ff22be044863b31ecdd7893b049349',<br>os_hidden='False', os_secure_boot='required', owner_specified.openstack.md5='',<br>owner_specified.openstack.object='images/WindowsVM', owner_specified.openstack.sha256='' |<br>root@dmzcloud:/home/cloud#<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Then I logged into horizon dashboard, from the images selected the imported image and try to launch the instance. With a Flavour of 550 GB disk, 4 vcpus and 8GB Ram .. </div><div><br></div><div>The instance spawning ran for 30 minutes and throws the error which I pasted first in the right top corner of horizon dashboard. </div><div><br></div><div>How to solve this error and boot the Windows machine successfully ..</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>"""</div><div>Error : failed to perform requested operation on instance "WindowsVM "the instance has error status. Please try again later [Error exceeded maximum number of retries. Exhausted all hosts available for retrying build failures for instance e3d5c095-7d26-4b1e-89d1-d1a6e20a45041<br><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>"""</div><div><br></div><div>Any help highly appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Kris</div><div><br></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Mohammed Naser<br>VEXXHOST, Inc.</div>