Windows 2008 x64 regularly freezing on proxmox 1.5

adoII

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Jan 28, 2010
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Hi,

we run a Windows 2008 R1 x64 vm on proxmox 1.5.

That Windows machine is freezing about once a day which means that you cannot enter anything on the console or ping or rdp to that vm. Proxmox then shows a vm cpu usage of 104 %

We tried everything, virtio and ide, different nics, single-cpu und multi-cpu in the guest

Does anyone have an idea what we can do to prevent the problem ? What we can debug or what we can try ?

Thanks
 
pls post the output of 'pveversion -v'

is this a migrated VM or a clean install?
 
This is a clean install.
BTW: That Windows vm uses a raw image, no qcow2 or such things
 
I am having the similar issue with my local test. I increased ram and cpu units but it freezes very rarely. I heard that linux guests are much better than windows ones. Or can this be related to kernel or KVM?
 
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I am running 2.6.32 and have a few 2008 Standard (32bit) KVMs with fresh install, some single CPU, some multi-core and all are rock solid. They are SQL DB Servers, some of which get hit constantly.
 
I also have some solid 32 bit vms.

Maybe the Problem is that the guest making problems has a 64 Bit Windows 2008 OS ?

BTW: What kernel and Versions are you using ?

We use:san02:/boot# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.5-10 (pve-manager/1.5/4822)
running kernel: 2.6.32-2-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.5-8
pve-kernel-2.6.32-1-pve: 2.6.32-4
pve-kernel-2.6.32-2-pve: 2.6.32-8
pve-kernel-2.6.18-2-pve: 2.6.18-5
qemu-server: 1.1-16
pve-firmware: 1.0-5
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-13
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.23-1pve11
vzdump: 1.2-6
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.12.4-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-4
 
Code:
pve-manager: 1.5-10 (pve-manager/1.5/4822)
running kernel: 2.6.32-2-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.5-7
pve-kernel-2.6.32-2-pve: 2.6.32-7
pve-kernel-2.6.18-2-pve: 2.6.18-5
qemu-server: 1.1-16
pve-firmware: 1.0-5
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-13
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.23-1pve11
vzdump: 1.2-5
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.12.4-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-3
 

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