[PVE-User] Windows 2003 hangs when rebooting

[Andrew Niemantsverdriet]

When is the next version due out?

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Martin Maurer <martin at proxmox.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gerry Demaret [mailto:ml at x-net.be]
>> Sent: Dienstag, 17. März 2009 11:25
>> To: Martin Maurer; pve-user at pve.proxmox.com
>> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Windows 2003 hangs when rebooting
>>
>> Martin Maurer wrote:
>> > I have seen this on old KVM version with multiprocessor systems.
>> > I suggest you update to the latest version (if you haven´t already).
>>
>> Yes, we are running v1.1 on all our machines ever since it came out.
>>
>> > If you have issues, please always provide the settings used for the
>> KVM
>> > machine, 32 or 64 bit, and post the content of etc/qemu-
>> server/VMID.conf
>>
>> This is the content:
>>
>> name: vm103
>> ide2: windows-server-2003-R2-CD1-64.iso,media=cdrom
>> smp: 2
>> vlan0: rtl8139=EA:35:F8:91:21:D3
>> bootdisk: ide0
>> ide0: vm-103-disk.qcow2
>> ostype: w2k3
>> memory: 4096
>> onboot: 1
>>
>> > Windows 2003 is known to run very stable on Proxmox VE 1.1 with the
>> > following settings:
>> >
>> > - one processor
>> > - e1000 as network card with the latest drivers from Intel
>> > - IDE disks
>>
>> Hmm, well, as you can see, we are using the Realtek driver and two
>> CPU's. I'll switch it to the Intel one and take one CPU away and see
>> what it does. I hope this will fix the problem.
>
>
> I just did a few test with win2003-64 and I can confirm the problems with reboots. Sometimes it's working, sometimes not (not related to network or cpu).
> I never seen this on 32-bit win2003 and also win2008 64 bit is better here.
>
> I suggest you wait for the next release (including a new KVM version). As soon as KVM-85 is released we will do intense testing here as always and I post the result with win2003-64 here, hopefully improvements.
>
> Br, martin
>
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