A number of things could be going wrong, but I did notice this bug recently: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1086352 I think this only affects installs on old versions of xp. Perhaps there is some incompatibility between the virtio drivers and windows server 2012? Vish On Dec 18, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Joe Warren-Meeks <joe.warren.meeks at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've created a windows 2012 image and uploaded it ok. Pretty much following this example: > > http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/creating-a-windows-image.html > > When I go to launch an instance, it works ok and nova list and nova show look healthy. > > If I VNC to it as soon as it starts to boot, I get to see the BIOS and then the new Windows logo, but then the screen goes black and nothing seems to happen. Sending ctrl-alt-del elicits no response and it doesn't look like the network has DHCP'ed either. > > Has anyone else seen this and if so, any idea what I can do to fix it? > > Kind regards > > -- joe. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20121218/7e1e2fae/attachment.html>