[1.9] Problem with installing WIN28k

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michu

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Hi,

We're using Proxmox for 1 year and it's great. Thank you !

But today we encountered one serious problem with installing Win2k8 R2.
The installer of win2k8 can't detect any drives, no matter if we use IDE, SCSI or VIRTIO.
All the time it starts installation and then display error about no discs (when disc is IDE or SCSI).
If we change to VIRTIO, we can load virtio drivers, the controller is detected, we click next
and then message "No discs detected" (but driver was found previously).

We tried on:

virtio-win-0.1-15.iso
virtio-win-0.1-mm34.iso
virtio-win-1.1.16.iso

All time same problem.

The more interesting thing is that we have actually one win28k installed (it was installed on 1.7)
and it still works, we just can't install another one. Same problem with win7, other windows not tested.
Tested with Linux and it works...

# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.9-24 (pve-manager/1.9/6542)
running kernel: 2.6.32-6-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.9-47
pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-33
pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-47
qemu-server: 1.1-32
pve-firmware: 1.0-14
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.29-2pve1
vzdump: 1.2-16
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.15.0-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-6

Do you have any ideas ?

Regards,
Michu
 
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Hi,

I tested it on second machine and it works.... PVE 1.9 too.
So... can it be hardware related in any way ?


Michu
 
there is no known issue, so check your hardware for any problems, bios upgrades, etc.
 
Thx for reply...

But this is really strange.... Because we installed win2k8 on this machine about half year ago... and it works:)
But we can't install new one.

I did one thing during this machine lifetime which i didn't on second machine...
When i need to duplicate machine i create a new one and i copy cp --sparse=auto path_to_image_existing_vm path_to_image_new_vm

Can this cause that problems ???
Simply I just only copy disc file (raw format). The source machine is downed in this time of course.



Michu
 
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