Stuck at EFI boot during reboot of VM

[Tahsin]

I have been having issue with this for a while with VMs. Whenever, the VM restarts and it gets stuck on Proxmox EFI boot screen as seen below. Doesn't matter if it is Windows 10 or 11. I haven't tried a linux distro on a vm yet.



I have to do a reset for it to boot normally. This happens only when it restarts, but not all the time.

The usual info

Spoiler: Package Versions

proxmox-ve: 7.2-1 (running kernel: 5.15.35-1-pve)
pve-manager: 7.2-7 (running version: 7.2-7/d0dd0e85)
pve-kernel-5.15: 7.2-6
pve-kernel-helper: 7.2-6
pve-kernel-5.13: 7.1-9
pve-kernel-5.11: 7.0-10
pve-kernel-5.15.39-1-pve: 5.15.39-1
pve-kernel-5.15.35-2-pve: 5.15.35-5
pve-kernel-5.15.35-1-pve: 5.15.35-3
pve-kernel-5.13.19-6-pve: 5.13.19-15
pve-kernel-5.13.19-2-pve: 5.13.19-4
pve-kernel-5.11.22-7-pve: 5.11.22-12
ceph-fuse: 14.2.21-1
corosync: 3.1.5-pve2
criu: 3.15-1+pve-1
glusterfs-client: 9.2-1
ifupdown: not correctly installed
ifupdown2: 3.1.0-1+pmx3
ksm-control-daemon: 1.4-1
libjs-extjs: 7.0.0-1
libknet1: 1.24-pve1
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.4.2
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.3.1-1
libpve-access-control: 7.2-4
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.2-1
libpve-common-perl: 7.2-2
libpve-guest-common-perl: 4.1-2
libpve-http-server-perl: 4.1-3
libpve-storage-perl: 7.2-7
libqb0: 1.0.5-1
libspice-server1: 0.14.3-2.1
lvm2: 2.03.11-2.1
lxc-pve: 5.0.0-3
lxcfs: 4.0.12-pve1
novnc-pve: 1.3.0-3
openvswitch-switch: not correctly installed
proxmox-backup-client: 2.2.5-1
proxmox-backup-file-restore: 2.2.5-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.3-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 3.5.1
pve-cluster: 7.2-2
pve-container: 4.2-2
pve-docs: 7.2-2
pve-edk2-firmware: 3.20210831-2
pve-firewall: 4.2-5
pve-firmware: 3.5-1
pve-ha-manager: 3.4.0
pve-i18n: 2.7-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 6.2.0-11
pve-xtermjs: 4.16.0-1
qemu-server: 7.2-3
smartmontools: 7.2-pve3
spiceterm: 3.2-2
swtpm: 0.7.1~bpo11+1
vncterm: 1.7-1
zfsutils-linux: 2.1.4-pve1

Spoiler: VM Settings

agent: 1
balloon: 8192
bios: ovmf
boot: order=ide2;scsi0
cores: 2
cpu: host
efidisk0: local-zfs:vm-105-disk-0,efitype=4m,pre-enrolled-keys=1,size=1M
hostpci0: 0000:00:02.0,mdev=i915-GVTg_V5_4,pcie=1
ide2: none,media=cdrom
machine: pc-q35-6.2
memory: 10240
name: Security
net0: virtio=02:0CE:B9:80:91,bridge=vmbr1,queues=2
net1: virtio=02:0CE:71:59:e0,bridge=vmbr2,queues=2
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: win11
scsi0: local-zfs:vm-105-disk-1,discard=on,iothread=1,replicate=0,size=128G,ssd=1
scsi1: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD40PURZ-85TTDY0_WD-WCC7K3DCRCVK,backup=0,replicate=0,size=3907018584K
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=98e7ebdf-ff97-4767-981a-42b972762062
sockets: 1
tablet: 1
tpmstate0: local-zfs:vm-105-disk-2,size=4M,version=v2.0
vga: virtio-gl,memory=512
vmgenid: 821b4081-8d6d-41cf-84cc-df27513c184f

 

[fiona]

Hi,
this sounds like it might be one of the issues mentioned in this mega-thread. Unfortunately, we're still searching for the cause of these issues.

Does it always get stuck in the same place (before the spinning circles show up)?
Can you remember when the issues started and if yes, can you correlate it with a certain update?
Were the VMs freshly created or imported from somewhere else (via disk import/backup)?

 

[Tahsin]

Hi,
this sounds like it might be one of the issues mentioned in this mega-thread. Unfortunately, we're still searching for the cause of these issues.

Does it always get stuck in the same place (before the spinning circles show up)?
Can you remember when the issues started and if yes, can you correlate it with a certain update?
Were the VMs freshly created or imported from somewhere else (via disk import/backup)?

Does it always get stuck in the same place (before the spinning circles show up)? Yes. Primarily when the VM is restarting. Rarely from cold start.
Can you remember when the issues started and if yes, can you correlate it with a certain update? I had this issue since V6 that I can remember. I rarely ran Windows VMs in Proxmox.
Were the VMs freshly created or imported from somewhere else (via disk import/backup)? Clean install in proxmox.

 

[odolmach3]

Hi, i have the same Problem... Windows Server 2022 sometimes stuck at boot before the circle appears. Is there any solution?

 

[Scarfula]

Change disks to IDE it is fixed my problem