[Openstack-operators] Help with windows image and cloudbase init service startup

Jonathan Proulx jon at jonproulx.com
Wed Sep 18 02:10:33 UTC 2013


Hi All,

I don't normally "do" windows, in fact the image I'm trying to build is my
first Windows Server2012 install ever.

I've almost got it, installed the virtio dirvers, installed cloudbase init
from the MSI on cloudebase.it.  The last step of the msi asks to run
sysprep, which I agreed to do so it runs and clears out the Administrator
password and such then shuts down.

Upload the qcow2 to glance and it boots, yay, it has working network, and
created the "Admin" user that's meant to get it's password set, double and
triple  yay.  But...

rdesktop isn't running yet and 'nova get-password <instance> <private-key>'
doesn't get anything.

If I use the VNC console to reset the Administrator password and login
(insecurely) I see a notice that the cloudbase-init is stopped.  If I then
tell it to start the coludbase-init  service the "Admin" password gets set,
'nova get-password' gets a password and I can login as "Admin" with that
password with rdesktop...

the cloudbase-init service has Start type Automatice (which seems good) and
the event log shows an envet ID 0 of Severity Error from cloudbase-init at
about start up time but shows no detail in the view I'm looking at at least.

Hopefully this is obvious to anyone with 1/2 a clue, which is significantly
more than I have in this particular area, but where do I go from here?
It's so close.

-Jon
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