On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Malek Mushleh <mmusleh at isi.edu> 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