Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replies.

It seems Kirk(Jantzer) was correct. For whatever reason when I put the
xen tools into the template it got a link-local address. When I placed
them to install with the sysprep answer file it worked as expected.

Thanks!
Ian

On 15 July 2013 01:45, Kirk Jantzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ian - As the other Kirk said (I don't get to say that often :-P), if it's
> getting that kind of IP, it could mean the NIC drivers aren't getting
> installed correctly. I've found Windows works better in CS when you run
> post scripts that are kicked off via a sysprep answer file, rather than
> just wrapping things up in an image.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Kirk Kosinski <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi, Ian. Is it getting an 169.254.x.x IP?  If so, it means it cannot get
>> an IP via DHCP.  In this case, try setting the IP manually to the IP it
>> should have, then try to diagnose network connectivity (ping virtual
>> router, ping other VMs, etc.).
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Kirk
>>
>> On 07/14/2013 03:39 PM, Ian Duffy wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm using Cloudstack 4.1 and Xenserver 6.0.2.
>> >
>> > I Installed windows server 2008 R2 with xenserver tools and cloud.com
>> > VM instance tools.
>> > syspreped it with "Enter System out of box experience" + Generalize.
>> > Shutdown the machine and created a template.
>> >
>> > I created an instance using the template and the instance came up but:
>> > 1) It had a different IP address to the one given in Cloudstack
>> > 2) No gateway was set
>> >
>> > Any idea why this is happening and how to fix it?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Ian
>> >
>>
>
>
>
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> Regards,
>
> Kirk Jantzer
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