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Ben Fishel-Brown
Ben Fishel-Brown

Reputation: 135

Can't create Azure VMs from an uploaded Windows 8 VHD

It appears I'm able to successfully upload my sysprep'd, RDP enabled, fixed size Windows 8 VHD to my Azure environment using the following Powershell line:

add-azurevhd -destination "https://atoqa.blob.core.windows.net/vhds/zTemplate-W8sp.vhd" -localfilepath "C:\VM\W8_Template\W8-Sysprep.vhd"

I am using the Azure interface to create an image from that uploaded VHD. However, my problem starts when I attempt to create a VM from that image. On the Virtual Machine Instances page the new VM is listed as Running (Provisioning) but never seems to come out of that provisioning state.

On a related note, I've successfully uploaded a VHD identical to the one described above except it isn't sysprep'd. I can successfully create a disk from the VHD and seemingly can create a VM using that disk with no issue. However, I can't RDP into the box (using the file provided by Azure). I thought something might be blocked on my end, but I've had no issues RDP'ing to the servers I've created using the images provided by Microsoft.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I know I haven't provided all of the minute details of what I'm doing, but if you want them I can certainly post them here. Many thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3600

Answers (2)

Julio Raffaine
Julio Raffaine

Reputation: 338

I'm answering just to offer you an alternative, but I've not tested any of these.

The first is for uploading pure Win7/8 VMs on Azure, and one of the disclaimers is to previously enable your RDP on the VM, and I would also add another step that is to remember the creation of endpoints on Azure.

http://jeffchiu.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/kb-how-to-create-a-windows-7-azure-vm-image/

The other is to make a Win2012 server capable of running Win8 Projects.

http://mythoughtsonit.com/2013/05/build-a-windows-8-developer-environment-in-the-cloud/

Upvotes: 0

astaykov
astaykov

Reputation: 30868

Client Operating systems (like Windows 8) are not Supported in windows Azure Virtual Machines. Only Windows Server based images are supported (and some flavors of Linux).

Upvotes: 3

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