[Openstack-operators] Cannot create Instances

Joe Topjian joe.topjian at cybera.ca
Tue Apr 2 14:10:54 UTC 2013


Good stuff to know. Thank you!


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Sylvain Bauza <sylvain.bauza at digimind.com>wrote:

>  Hi Joe,
>
> Indeed. My SQLServer 2K instances are running fine and I'm able to snaphot
> live.
> The main issue was with the IIS6.0/ASP2.0 instances. I had very hard time
> trying to understand the root cause, it took 3 weeks of long pain by
> testing any combination.
>
> -Sylvain
>
> Le 02/04/2013 00:08, Joe Topjian a écrit :
>
> Hi Sylvain,
>
>  Were you running any specific services on Windows to cause this (such as
> Exchange or SQL Server)? I've never run into this issue myself, although
> the Windows instances I've run were more for desktop-related tasks.
>
>  Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Sylvain Bauza <sylvain.bauza at digimind.com
> > wrote:
>
>>  Indeed.
>> FYI, I had various issues with Windows 2003R2 over KVM (libvirtified).
>> The most painful one was the fact that for some reason, my Windows dlls
>> were corrupt and Windows was crashing after 6h or 12h running.
>>
>> After a hard period, I found why : when you perform a snapshot, it's very
>> important to make sure the disks are synced, which is *not the case* with
>> the default virtio driver settings. As a result, when trying to hot
>> snapshot a Windows instance, the image was corrupt.
>>
>> The only solution I found was to either stop the instance and do the
>> snapshot; or disable the writecache in Windows.
>>
>> -Sylvain
>>
>> Le 28/03/2013 21:42, Steven Barnabas a écrit :
>>
>> Ahh nevermind, I see that I need to create a windows image with Virtio
>> drivers installed.
>>
>>
>>  Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Steven Barnabas
>> Network Engineer
>> Front Porch, Inc.
>> 209-288-5580
>> 209-652-7733 mobile
>> www.frontporch.com
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Mar 28, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Steven Barnabas <sbarnabas at frontporch.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Success!!!!   I have launched my Windows ISO instance with a volume
>> attatched.  Thank you very much for all you're help.
>>
>>  Just 1 more quick question.  When I am VNC'ing into the image to
>> install windows onto the volume, it is trying to boot from the actual
>> volume, then network, then floppy.  It never launches the ISO. Since there
>> is no OS installed yet on the volume, there is no bootable disc.  Is there
>> a way of making it launch the ISO and start the installation?
>>
>>
>>
>>  Thank you very much.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Steven Barnabas
>> Network Engineer
>> Front Porch, Inc.
>> 209-288-5580
>> 209-652-7733 mobile
>> www.frontporch.com
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Mar 26, 2013, at 2:08 AM, Sylvain Bauza <sylvain.bauza at digimind.com>
>> wrote:
>>
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