Garbled coloured text when booting Windows Image

[gmintoco]

Hi,
I have just set up a 3 node Proxmox cluster backed by Ceph. When trying to deploy a VM I get the following output from the console (a mess of coloured garbled text) I have implemented the recommended best practices for windows as outlined here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_10_guest_best_practices.

The image definitely works as loading the same one image (without copying or any other operation) boots fine from vSphere. The image boots fine when the bootloader type is set to UEFI but will not show the Disk (and I cannot install the VirtIO drivers as they are incompatible with UEFI as far as I can tell).

Let me know if I should provide more details I have attached pictures of the VMs exact configuration. The servers are all identical running AMD Epyc 7302P processors.

Thanks for any help

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,

you say that is a UEFI system on ESXi.
Then you must use OVMF instead of Seabios.
OVMF is the UEFI implantation. Seabios is the legacy bios implementation.

Ensure all drivers from ESXi are remove include the VMWare guest tools.
Use virtio instead of vmxnet.

vCPU should be set to EPYC.