having serious issues with booting a vm

[1eo]

for some reason everytime i try to reboot this vm it never comes back online easily and now i cant even vnc into it to see what its doing
it either gets to the boot screen and hangs or it goes boot device not found right now it says its on yet i cant do anything

 

[oguz]

hi,

* which PVE version are you running? pveversion -v

now it says its on yet i cant do anything

* can you access the VM again if you force a stop/start? qm stop 101 && qm start 101

* please post the VM configuration: qm config 101

* how exactly are you rebooting the VM?

 

[1eo]

hi,

* which PVE version are you running? pveversion -v


* can you access the VM again if you force a stop/start? qm stop 101 && qm start 101

* please post the VM configuration: qm config 101

* how exactly are you rebooting the VM?

*After Running pveversion -v*
proxmox-ve: 7.2-1 (running kernel: 5.15.30-2-pve)
pve-manager: 7.2-3 (running version: 7.2-3/c743d6c1)
pve-kernel-helper: 7.2-2
pve-kernel-5.15: 7.2-1
pve-kernel-5.15.30-2-pve: 5.15.30-3
ceph-fuse: 15.2.16-pve1
corosync: 3.1.5-pve2
criu: 3.15-1+pve-1
glusterfs-client: 9.2-1
ifupdown2: 3.1.0-1+pmx3
ksm-control-daemon: 1.4-1
libjs-extjs: 7.0.0-1
libknet1: 1.22-pve2
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.4.2
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.2.0-1
libpve-access-control: 7.1-8
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.2-1
libpve-common-perl: 7.1-6
libpve-guest-common-perl: 4.1-2
libpve-http-server-perl: 4.1-1
libpve-storage-perl: 7.2-2
libspice-server1: 0.14.3-2.1
lvm2: 2.03.11-2.1
lxc-pve: 4.0.12-1
lxcfs: 4.0.12-pve1
novnc-pve: 1.3.0-3
proxmox-backup-client: 2.1.8-1
proxmox-backup-file-restore: 2.1.8-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.3-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 3.4-10
pve-cluster: 7.2-1
pve-container: 4.2-1
pve-docs: 7.2-2
pve-edk2-firmware: 3.20210831-2
pve-firewall: 4.2-5
pve-firmware: 3.4-1
pve-ha-manager: 3.3-4
pve-i18n: 2.7-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 6.2.0-5
pve-xtermjs: 4.16.0-1
qemu-server: 7.2-2
smartmontools: 7.2-pve3
spiceterm: 3.2-2
swtpm: 0.7.1~bpo11+1
vncterm: 1.7-1
zfsutils-linux: 2.1.4-pve1



*after running qm config 101*
balloon: 2048
boot: order=usb0
cores: 8
memory: 61440
meta: creation-qemu=6.2.0,ctime=1653956653
name: Unraid
net0: e1000=5E:65:02:20:5EE,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: l26
scsi2: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-35000cca03e869e88,size=2930266584K
scsi3: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-35000cca03e881468,size=2930266584K
scsi4: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-35000cca03ec89abc,size=2930266584K
scsi5: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-35000cca03ecb54ec,size=2930266584K
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=33734141-3587-4153-a104-61077e220901
sockets: 1
usb0: host=1221:3234,usb3=1
vmgenid: 1d7f7cac-df5f-47ee-babc-fe9328831770




"* how exactly are you rebooting the VM?"
im using the built in reboot option on unraid


"can you access the VM again if you force a stop/start? qm stop 101 && qm start 101"

i haven't tried this yet but i have tried to stop it with the gui button

sometimes i can get it to see the usb drive and then it will hang on the boot

and i end up having to remove the hardware (usb drive) virtually and physically

sometimes proxmox refuses to see the usb as well

 

[oguz]

"* how exactly are you rebooting the VM?"
im using the built in reboot option on unraid

i haven't tried this yet but i have tried to stop it with the gui button

are you pressing "Stop" or "Shutdown"? (these two do different things, "Stop" is more akin to pulling the plug)

sometimes i can get it to see the usb drive and then it will hang on the boot

and i end up having to remove the hardware (usb drive) virtually and physically

sometimes proxmox refuses to see the usb as well

why is it necessary to boot the VM from a USB stick?

it either gets to the boot screen and hangs or it goes boot device not found

that probably has to do with the USB boot disk not being recognized for some reason, it could be that the USB device is deactivated by unraid when you shutdown the VM.

my first suggestion would be to boot the VM from a virtual disk instead of the USB stick and see if that helps.

you could also try doing USB port passthrough instead of a specific device.

 

[1eo]

are you pressing "Stop" or "Shutdown"? (these two do different things, "Stop" is more akin to pulling the plug)



why is it necessary to boot the VM from a USB stick?


that probably has to do with the USB boot disk not being recognized for some reason, it could be that the USB device is deactivated by unraid when you shutdown the VM.

my first suggestion would be to boot the VM from a virtual disk instead of the USB stick and see if that helps.

you could also try doing USB port passthrough instead of a specific device.

FIrstly i pressed shutdown

secondly
because that is the only way to have unraid running


I really dont think its the usb as once proxmox finally allows it to boot properly it works just fine and has no errors