[PVE-User] Windows 2003 hangs when rebooting

[Victor Padro]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Andrew Niemantsverdriet
<andrew at rocky.edu>wrote:

> 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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I had the same issue here, the partial solution was to add an e1000
interface, install the drivers from intel, remove the rtl8139 interface,
reboot and everything was working ok, though it was windows server 2003
enterprise 32bit.


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