AzureVM deployed but showing as failed.

Question

_{Monday, April 24, 2017 11:34 AM}

Hi, 

I deployed a new VM a Disk Image within AzureRM, the Virtual Machine deploys and runs, but i get the following message?

FAILED:

Provisioning failed. OS Provisioning for VM '********' did not finish in the allotted time. However, the VM guest agent was detected running. This suggests the guest OS has not been properly prepared to be used as a VM image (with CreateOption=FromImage). To resolve this issue, either use the VHD as is with CreateOption=Attach or prepare it properly for use as an image: * Instructions for Windows: https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-windows-upload-image/ * Instructions for 

Now i have a red failed bar across the top of the Virtual Machine Blade? 

I followed the instructions for creating the disk and then image, but get this error message

Any ideas?

Thanks

Tommy

All replies (1)

_{Thursday, April 27, 2017 5:09 AM}

Are you deploying Windows VM or Linux VM from image ?

Seems that the image is not generalized properly and that is the reason you are getting failed error.

Here is the article which describes on how to Capture a managed image of a generalized VM in Azure