1) make sure you have a cloud with images 2) start a fresh instance of the deltacloud tools (no data loaded yet!) 3) select an image and hit "Launch instance" on it in the cloud view 4) be very quick and give it a name and hit finish Result: Wizard does not get closed, you'll get the following exception in the log: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.tools.internal.deltacloud.ui.wizards.NewInstanceWizard$WatchCreateJob.run(NewInstanceWizard.java:110) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)