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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

If I was to guess it’s probably missing UEFI firmware packages :)

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 9:17 AM KK CHN <kkchn.in at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> I am trying to import a WIndows2012 Single disk VM, to OpenStack Ussuri,
> with glance and Qemu KVM.
>
> In bare machine KVM I am able to import and boot this Windows VM which
> exported from rhevm hypervisor as  vhdx image.
> what I have done is
>
> 1. converted this windows  image from vhdx to qcow2
> 2.  root at 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
>
> This uploaded the qcow2 image of WindowsVM to  KVM  hypervisor and its
> working.
>
> But when I do importing to openstack   unable to launch  instance from the
> image .
>
> These are the steps I performed..
>
> 1. openstack image create "WindowsVM" --file CMAPP_disk_1.qcow2
> --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --public
>
> 4.openstack image set --property hw_firmware_type=uefi --property
> os_secure_boot=required WindowsVM
>
> 5.openstack image set --property hw_firmware_type=uefi --property
> hw_disk_bus=ide WindowsVM
>
> 6.openstack image show WindowsVM
>
> 7. root at dmzcloud:/home/cloud# openstack image show WindowsVM|grep
> "properties"
> | properties       | hw_disk_bus='ide', hw_firmware_type='uefi',
> os_hash_algo='sha512',
>
> os_hash_value='753ee596980409e1e72d6d020c8219c56a6ada8b43f634fb575c594a245725a398e45982c0a1ad72b3fc3451cde62cceb9ff22be044863b31ecdd7893b049349',
> os_hidden='False', os_secure_boot='required',
> owner_specified.openstack.md5='',
> owner_specified.openstack.object='images/WindowsVM',
> owner_specified.openstack.sha256='' |
> root at dmzcloud:/home/cloud#
>
>
> 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 ..
>
> The instance spawning ran for 30 minutes and throws the error which I
> pasted first in the right top corner of horizon dashboard.
>
> How to solve this error and boot the Windows machine successfully ..
>
>
> """
> 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
>
>
> """
>
> Any help highly appreciated.
>
> Kris
>
> --
Mohammed Naser
VEXXHOST, Inc.
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