[SOLVED] Live Migration of VM with OVMF/UEFI using shared NFS Storage

[Damon1974]

Live Migration of VM with OVMF/UEFI using shared NFS Storage
Does this configuration have issues. I try and do a live migration of a VM and it fails with: resume failed - VM not running
I have looked online and can't find anything specifically that says this is an issue, but ChatGPT says I need to recreate the VM with the SeaBIOS if I truly need live migration.

I'm hoping I am missing something simple. Cold migrations work fine, and even the live-migration does the heavy lifting, but then falls short because the VM is now off and I have to start it manually on the new host.

I ran pve-qemu-kvm and pve-edk2-firmware, and both are consistent between the 2 hosts. I am open to ideas here, or you can tell me I'm beating a dead horse. I never saw anywhere in posts were people were talking about differences in VMware and Proxmox that if the VMs are not created a certain way you will lose the ability to live migrate. (I would think that would be a big call out.)

Thanks.
Damon1974

 

[fiona]

Hi,

Live Migration of VM with OVMF/UEFI using shared NFS Storage
Does this configuration have issues. I try and do a live migration of a VM and it fails with: resume failed - VM not running

please share the full migration task log as well as the system journal from the target node around the time the issue happened. Please also share the output of qm config <ID> replacing <ID> with the actual ID of the VM and the output of pveversion -v from both source and target node.

I have looked online and can't find anything specifically that says this is an issue, but ChatGPT says I need to recreate the VM with the SeaBIOS if I truly need live migration.

No, that is just statistically generated falsehood. Migration with EFI disks on shared storages works.

 

[Damon1974]

SOLVED -- Thanks Fiona for the reply. I ended up getting it fixed by changing the Processor from type Host to type X86-64-V3. Once that was changed the live-migrations worked with no issue. I agree with you, lots of mis-information being consumed by the web and ChatGPT.

I appreciate the follow up. Problem has been remediated.