ProxMox VE 1.9 Windows KVM and Debian openVZ fail to start

[Petrus4]

I upgraded from 1.8 to 1.9 about a month ago with no issues.

Since then there have been no kernel changes or other updates. I noticed the server was running slower than normal and rebooted the virtual environment. After the reboot the following happened:


one of my ubuntu openVZ instances start up with out issues.
the second ones takes a very long time to start.
One Debian openVz start up hangs on boot. Boot process seem to hang here.
3 Windows server 2003 kvm instances will not start. on boot or manually.

I have to manually start apache2 to get to the web interface.

When I try to manually start KVM W2k3 servers I get the following error:

 VM 102 start failed: command '/usr/bin/kvm -monitor unix:/var/run/qemu-server/102.mon,server,nowait -vnc unix:/var/run/qemu-server/102.vnc,password -pidfile /var/run/qemu-server/102.pid -daemonize -usbdevice tablet -name HEC-SRV2 -smp sockets=2,cores=4 -nodefaults -boot menu=on,order=cn -vga cirrus -tdf -localtime -rtc-td-hack -k en-us -drive file=/var/lib/vz/images/102/vm-102-disk-1.raw,if=ide,index=0,cache=none -drive file=/dev/vmdisks/vm-102-disk-1,if=ide,index=1,cache=none,boot=on -m 2048 -netdev type=tap,id=vlan0d0,ifname=tap102i0d0,script=/var/lib/qemu-server/bridge-vlan -device e1000,mac=8E:1C:CB:A5:0E:59,netdev=vlan0d0 -id 102 -cpuunits 1000' failed with exit code 1

Here is my pveversion -v

pve-manager: 1.9-26 (pve-manager/1.9/6567)
running kernel: 2.6.32-7-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.9-55+ovzfix-2
pve-kernel-2.6.18-2-pve: 2.6.18-5
pve-kernel-2.6.32-7-pve: 2.6.32-55+ovzfix-2
qemu-server: 1.1-32
pve-firmware: 1.0-15
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.29-3pve1
vzdump: 1.2-16
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.15.0-2
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-6

Does anyone have any ideas why this could be happening? If I need to provide any more info let me know.

 

[Petrus4]

extra note: if I try to edit any settings in the web gui for the VM's that are not starting I get a "Error unable to apply VM settings"

 

[Petrus4]

Ok I am dumbfounded. I went for a run and a work out and decided I was going to run a backup of all VM's and then re-install the VE + restore all VM's the backups would not run from the Web Gui so I ran it from the command line in snapshot mode. When I did this all the VM's came back up!
Not sure what is going on here.. Does anyone have any thoughts?