XP crash

[cyberbootje]

Hi,

I recently installed a new windows xp machine using IDE disks in proxmox.
After a couple of day's it started to give me a blue screen with something like: irq_not_less_or_equal
It happens very randomly, no pattern. One day it did a blue screen 3 times a day and another day 1 time or none at all.
I think this is driver related? is there someone who's having the same problem?

I am using proxmox 1.6, that is because i cannot get iscsi working under 1.7 in combination with the Dell MD3200I SAN, i did not test 1.8 yet but xp is kinda old so 1.6 should work i think.

 

[udo]

Hi,
do you use virtio-net driver? This is the only driver which makes sometimes trouble for me (ok, after that i use e1000 in win-world).

Udo

 

[cyberbootje]

No, i use rtl.
I really have no clue about this issue, also nothing shows up in the logs of course.

 

[cyberbootje]

Can the problem be related to bad i/o and r/w speed of the disk?
It was installed on IDE disks and did like 4.5Mbyte r/w, now converted to virtio it's doing around 50Mbyte r/w a sec but since the issue is random i cannot confirm this has fixed it.

 

[udo]

Can the problem be related to bad i/o and r/w speed of the disk?
It was installed on IDE disks and did like 4.5Mbyte r/w, now converted to virtio it's doing around 50Mbyte r/w a sec but since the issue is random i cannot confirm this has fixed it.

Hmm,
i have no idea - perhaps. But curios is the different between ide and virtio. virtio is normaly faster (in some cases not) but not so much. Virtio has the advantage to use less cpu-power.

I use at mostly win-vms ide-driver (because activation-free updates) with good speeds.

Do you have more than one core/cpu in the win-vm? smp + win is an problem for IO (it's gone with 2.6.35 pve1.7).

Udo

 

[cyberbootje]

Yes, the machine has 2 cpu sockets assigned.

 

[udo]

Yes, the machine has 2 cpu sockets assigned.

Hi,
it's interesting if the speed with ide-driver and only one core also so bad?!

Udo

 

[tom]

I suggest you try upgrading to the latest version, there are a lot of fixes between 1.6 and 1.8.

 

[cyberbootje]

Well, can i include a 1.8 version into an 1.6 cluster?

And the speed of the i/o, yes i can confirm that 1 cpu and IDE is pretty fast(around 13MByte p/s), but 2 cpu's with virtio is still from 23MByte to 50Mbyte p/s.

 

[tom]

Well, can i include a 1.8 version into an 1.6 cluster?

no, upgrading all nodes is the way to go.

 

[cyberbootje]

That's a big risk, if it breaks it is a big problem.
I will try to install it on a stand-alone 1.8

 

[cyberbootje]

It seems XP is stable on 1.8
It has been running nou for 3 days without a crash!

 

[cyberbootje]

Unfortunatley, it crashed again.
Someone any idea's?