problem with importing ovf, import hangs

[chalex]

brand-new stock install of PVE. I'm trying to make my first VM following the user guide pdf. Section 10.6.1 Step-by-step example of a Windows OVF import:


root@amd01:~# qm importovf 999 /vm01/admin_stuff/Windev1802Eval.ovf localzfspool
(5.00/100%)
(10.00/100%)
...
hangs indefinitely.

I can see it making a new zvol, and the zvol filling up from 0 to ~20GB

root@amd01:~# zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
vm01 150G 6.58T 17.2G /vm01
vm01/vm-999-disk-1 131G 6.69T 19.3G -

I can also see it creating the config file for the VM, and it shows up in the web interface:
root@amd01:~# cat /etc/pve/qemu-server/999.conf
cores: 1
memory: 2048
name: Windev1802Eval
smbios1: uuid=c727f58d-c4c3-4ee5-8974-e49910074b6e

Watching iostat or zpool iostat shows the system is totally idle after the beginning. But the command is stuck. If I ctrl-c or send it a SIGHUP, it cleans up and deletes the zvol and the vm config

From the process list:

root 30942 0.0 0.0 328176 90708 pts/0 S+ 12:35 0:00 | \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/qm importovf 999 /vm01/ad
min_stuff/Windev1802Eval.ovf localzfspool
root 31272 5.3 0.0 612696 18216 pts/0 S+ 12:35 1:23 | \_ qemu-img convert /vm01/admin_stuff/Windev1802Eval-disk1.vmdk -p -n -O raw zeroinit:/dev/zvol/vm01/vm-999-disk-1

What can I do to troubleshoot this? zfs package version 0.7.6-pve1~bpo9 and I have compression and dedup turned on in my zpool.

As an aside, where are the instructions to switch from PVE using ZVOLS to just files in ZFS?

 

[chalex]

Wanted to follow up and say that instead of importing ovf, I created a new VM with id 100, then imported only the disk, and that worked.

root@amd01:~# qm importdisk 100 /vm01/admin_stuff/Windev1802Eval-disk1.vmdk localzfspool
(100.00/100%)

Then I modified the vm config to use this disk.

 

[t.lamprecht]

Hi, could you please post, or send me, the OVF file you used? I assume it's just the standard windows evaluation OVF, but it would spare me downloading it

 

[chalex]

Yes, it is just the latest download that I got from the Windows VM link in the PVE PDF guide:


root@amd01:/vm01/admin_stuff# ls -alh Windev*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18G Feb 12 23:48 Windev1802Eval-disk1.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 193 Feb 12 23:48 Windev1802Eval.mf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.8K Feb 12 23:48 Windev1802Eval.ovf