Guest with blue screen

[johjoh]

Hello, I have a problem with a guest that daily crash with blue screen.
On the same ProxMox Server others guests running fine.

This guests is used as a Mail Server with Windows Server 2003 R2 64 bit and Mdaemon, it serve a large number of email session, with many little HD storage access.
The guest use VirtIO as a SCSI controller and VirtIO as a Ethernet controller.
The VirtIO ethernet controller manage multiple IP address (150).
The two disks are raw format and have option ",cache=none" enabled
Two or three time daily it crash and goes in blue screeen.

Some suggestion or modify to virtual hardware?
Thank you

 

[udo]

Hello, I have a problem with a guest that daily crash with blue screen.
On the same ProxMox Server others guests running fine.

This guests is used as a Mail Server with Windows Server 2003 R2 64 bit and Mdaemon, it serve a large number of email session, with many little HD storage access.
The guest use VirtIO as a SCSI controller and VirtIO as a Ethernet controller.
The VirtIO ethernet controller manage multiple IP address (150).
The two disks are raw format and have option ",cache=none" enabled
Two or three time daily it crash and goes in blue screeen.

Some suggestion or modify to virtual hardware?
Thank you

Hi,
you can try the e1000-driver (driver from the intel-site) instead virtio-net.

Udo

 

[martin]

maybe you try the very latest virto driver, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630830#c26

 

[johjoh]

Thank you to both of you, I will try this night.
There are also update for VirtIO Block driver? Somewhat like virtio-win-1.1.18?

Thank you, see you tomorrow for the result...

 

[johjoh]

I've updated VirtIO Lan Driver, crash is less frequently, but continue.
I try with Intel NIC.

Any other news or suggestion?
Thank you

 

[johjoh]

At the end, I've migrated the VM to VMware and now all running fine and quickly.
Test perfomed without success:
- removed VirtIO SCSI controller and converted disks as IDE - result blue screen
- updated driver of VirtIO Network Interface - result blue screen
- removed VirtIO Lan Network Interface and installed Intel E1000 instead - result no blue screen but the VM freeze

I think that all problem turn around multiple IP address on a single network interface.
Thank you for your help

 

[udo]

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I think that all problem turn around multiple IP address on a single network interface.
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Hi,
why you use multible IPs on one VM-NIC? virtual nics are very cheap

Perhaps you should use 802.1q on the host and for ech vlan seperate nics inside the VMs.

Udo