Although I can't help you with your problems, I had no problem spinning up a VM and am using it now.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > Has anyone here successfully created a working manageable Azure VM? I > tried last night using all the default values via my web Portal. The > machine got stuck in the "Provisioning timed out" stage and is not > contactable, even via a ping. Web searches show countless people hitting > this problem over and over until they go barking mad. Before I go mad like > them, I thought I'd ask here. The repeated advice about removing the VHD > and sysprepping it is gibberish. > > I've tried rebooting the VM without luck. I deleted the VM, now I can't > delete the Storage space with the VM because it says "containers have > active image and/or disk artifacts", so I'm stuck in a catch-22 and I'm > sick of wasting time on this. > > My experience and what I'm reading from others is stunningly disappointing > for this product. > > Greg K >
