Cannot create a Google Compute VM instance

Question

I thought that this would be relatively straight forward, but I cannot start a Google Compute Engine instance at all. I am creating an instance through the web interface, but get an error after clicking the "Create" button.

The error that appears in the activity log is:

Invalid value for field 'resource.type': 'https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects//zones/asia-east1-b/diskTypes/pd-standard'. Must be a URL to a valid Compute resource of the correct type.

Here is a screen shot of my instance settings:

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Any ideas about what is going wrong? I have tried different zones and VM sizes.

I had no trouble creating an instance with the same parameters as in your screenshot, and since you're getting the error for different zones/VM sizes, it may be an issue affecting your specific account. Please use the grey Send feedback link in the bottom-right corner to submit this as an issue. — Misha Brukman

Ali Ali · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-20T16:57:16

Not sure why you're unable to create the instance, but you can always create it directly from the terminal with gcutil.

This command should do the trick: gcutil addinstance --zone=asia-east1-b --image=debian-7-wheezy-v20140606 --machine_type=g1-small bigquery-bi-instance

Cannot create a Google Compute VM instance

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