Error: start failed Message

[Josen Ruiseco]

I am a total newbie here. Just installed ProxMox 4.2-17/e1400248

Created 4 VM's and cannot get them all to start up. Getting the following error randomly when trying to start the Windows Server 2008 instances:

Error: start failed: command 'usr/bin/kvm -id 104 -chardev 'socket,id=qmp,path=/var/run/qemu-server/104,qmp,server,nowait' -mon 'chardev=qmp,mode=control' -pidfil and then I cannot read the rest. And don't know where to look at the full log file.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Josen Ruiseco]

And to add to this... even when they start, they will fail and stop with no indication as to why.

 

[dcsapak]

please post one of the vm configurations

on the commandline type

qm config <ID>

(where <ID> is the numeric id of the vm)

the log is on the bottom of the webgui (Tasks)
just doubleclick on the task which failed

 

[Josen Ruiseco]

Dominik. thank you for your reply. It is much appreciated.

As it turns out, the host gave me a server that was much smaller than I ordered. So I was creating too many VM's than could possibly run on the box. That's why the errors and the shut down situation. I got the new server, installed PM and now everything is good.