Hi, Did you install the VMWare tools and sysprepped the image before adding it to Glance? Here's how we automate the creation of Windows OpenStack images for KVM, Hyper-V and VMWare (unattended setup, hypervisor drivers, windows updates, Cloudbase-Init and sysprep): https://github.com/cloudbase/windows-openstack-imaging-tools More details: http://www.cloudbase.it/create-windows-openstack-images/ Alessandro > On 24.02.2014, at 09:29, "Abhishek Soni" <virtualserver4 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I wanted to upload a new Win 2k8 R2 VMDK file to glance. > > I have created a new windows VM with 20 GB hdd on ESXi 5.1 and then uploaded the flat file to Glance. But when ever VM boots from openstack, it goes to recovery mode. > > Any help or point to correct solution document will be of great help! I am facing this issue only with Windows VMs. > > Thanks! > > Abhishek > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev