Proxmox 1.7 Windows VIRTIO BSOD

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BitRausch

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• Nov 30, 2010

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Hi @all,

I just updated to the latest release 1.7. After a reboot all my Windows VM show me a BSOD.
My Windows VM (SBS 2008, Windows 7 x32 and Windows 7 x64) where all running with VIRTIO devices without a problem before. But when I switch the HDD back to IDE the VM will start normaly.
Is there a problem with VIRTIO drivers and the latest version ? (I could not find anything...) or is it just on my system ?

pveversion -v

Code:

pve-manager: 1.7-10 (pve-manager/1.7/5323)
running kernel: 2.6.35-1-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.35: 1.6-7
pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-28
pve-kernel-2.6.35-1-pve: 2.6.35-7
qemu-server: 1.1-25
pve-firmware: 1.0-9
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-16
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.24-1pve4
vzdump: 1.2-9
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.13.0-2
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-4

kind regards

 

tom

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• Nov 30, 2010

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I got this sometimes with old virtio drivers. can you try with the latest?

 

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WOW - that was fast
Will try right away!

 

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That did the trick!!
Apparently I was still using the older version of the drivers.
Upgrading the drivers and switching back to VIRTIO device and everything is working again.
Thank u very much Tom!!

 

tom

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Great, thanks for testing.

Two recommendations for you:

disk setup:
try using cache=none for you disks (see /etc/qemu-server/VMID.conf)
e.g. "virtio0: local:126/vm-126-disk-1.raw,cache=none"

tune your network, try this.

 

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Excellent Tom!
Will try it tonight. I can spend some quality time with my test server without getting disturbed by anybody... ;-)
Thank you very much!

 

tom

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I appreciate your testing, thanks!

 

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• Dec 1, 2010

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I made a lot of tricks to boot my Windows systems (which are using virtio block device) after upgrading to proxmox-pve 1.7.
Just only one of them managed to boot with cache=none, some of them I managed to boot with changing just only boot device to IDE and used another device to upgrade virtio driver. But some of machine went to BSOD even if I add not boot virtio device. Just removing virtio driver from HKLM/CurrentControlSet/Services helped me to start these one. And, yes, all systems works again