cloudbase-init for windows instances on Rackspace Windows server 2008 R2

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hi, i am trying to pass some string to a file using the following user_data:

rem cmd

echo kuku > c:\temp\kukareku.txt

however the file is not created. here is the log:

2015-08-16 14:13:53.757 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.utils.classloader [-] Loading class 'cloudbaseinit.osutils.windows.WindowsUtils' loadclass C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\utils\classloader.py:26 2015-08-16 14:13:56.457 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.utils.classloader [-] Loading class 'cloudbaseinit.metadata.services.httpservice.HttpService' loadclass C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\utils\classloader.py:26 2015-08-16 14:13:56.628 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.utils.classloader [-] Loading class 'cloudbaseinit.osutils.windows.WindowsUtils' loadclass C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\utils\classloader.py:26 2015-08-16 14:13:56.628 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.utils.network [-] Testing url: http://169.254.169.254/ checkurl C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\utils\network.py:35 2015-08-16 14:13:56.721 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.utils.network [-] Testing url: http://169.254.169.254/ checkurl C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\utils\network.py:35 2015-08-16 14:13:56.737 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.utils.network [-] Testing url: http://169.254.169.254/ checkurl C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\utils\network.py:35 2015-08-16 14:13:56.737 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.utils.network [-] Setting gateway for host: 169.254.169.254 checkmetadataiproute C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\utils\network.py:60 2015-08-16 14:13:57.688 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.metadata.services.httpservice [-] Getting metadata from: http://169.254.169.254/openstack/late...data.json getdata C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\metadata\services\httpservice.py:70 2015-08-16 14:14:18.842 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.metadata.services.httpservice [-] Getting metadata from: http://169.254.169.254/openstack/late...data.json _getdata C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\metadata\services\httpservice.py:70 2015-08-16 14:14:43.881 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.metadata.services.httpservice [-] Getting metadata from: http://169.254.169.254/openstack/late...data.json _getdata C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\metadata\services\httpservice.py:70 2015-08-16 14:15:08.918 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.metadata.services.httpservice [-] Getting metadata from: http://169.254.169.254/openstack/late...data.json _getdata C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\metadata\services\httpservice.py:70 2015-08-16 14:15:33.957 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.metadata.services.httpservice [-] Getting metadata from: http://169.254.169.254/openstack/late...data.json _getdata C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\Python27\lib\site-packages\cloudbaseinit\metadata\services\httpservice.py:70 2015-08-16 14:15:58.994 1264 DEBUG cloudbaseinit.metadata.services.httpservice [-] Getting metadata from: http://169.254.169.254/openstack/late...data.json ... (more)