[SOLVED] CDROM Wont Create in new VM

[Colter Lovette]

First, the environment is a super simple, 1 host, home lab.

1 X Dell R710
16 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5550 @ 2.67GHz (2 Sockets)
96 GB DDR3 ECC RAM
6 x 160GB SSD (RAID 6)
4 x GB NIC

1 x Synology RS2414RP
12 x 4TB (Raid 6)
Bonded 4 x 1 Gbit NICs

All storage, except for local VM storage, is on the Synology. This includes templates, backups, ISO's, etc etc. The necessary share folder is linked to Proxmox using NFS.

I setup a Linux VM using Ubuntu 16.04 ISO from the share yesterday without a problem.

I then updated Proxmox (because I forgot to before building the first VM). Let it rest overnight. This morning I'm trying to create a Windows 7 VM, and for the life of me, I can't get ProxMox to create a CDROM device for the VM from the ISO in the same store as the Ubuntu ISO.

There's nothing in the GUI logs saying anything failed; it's almost like I never tried to create the device at all. I hit ok, and nothing happens. Then, of course, the VM just loops as there's nothing to boot from.

Ay ideas on what may be going on or where to look further for error details?

Thanks.

-Colt

 

[LnxBil]

If the ISO would be offline, you would not be able to start, so something is working. Maybe the ISO is not bootable? Can you please post your vm-config file from /etc/pve/qemu-server/<vmid>.conf?

 

[Colter Lovette]

Sure. I've played a bit with the settings. In this config I've added the CDROM after VM creation wizard. Booted and rebooted, shutdown, halted, and then powered back on cold. Won't take.... This is after creating and recreating with the CDROM configured during the wizard.

It simply never shows up in the hardware list in the GUI and the VM never sees it as a device to boot too (assuming because it doesnt see the device at all).

bootdisk: ide0
cores: 4
ide0: local-lvm:vm-101-disk-1,size=120G
memory: 16000
name: automator
net0: e1000=86:65:81:42:CB:FF,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
ostype: win7
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=3aaf9958-5bb9-4ba5-ad72-6515f891dabe
sockets: 1
[PENDING]
ide2: vm_soft:iso/Windows 7 (64bit) - October 2013 - Original Microsoft.iso,media=cdrom,size

EDIT** I just rebooted the host to see if any of the updates may have been stuck or causing some issues. No dice. ROM drive is still stuck in 'PENDING' status.

 

[Colter Lovette]

I figured this out:

The ISO name cannot have blank spaces in the name.