I couldn't find anything similar in the forums for this. We are converting XenServer vms over to Proxmox 2.0. After converting a couple of customers, we got a complaint that they couldn't open MS Word to be able to paste into it. We checked into it and sure enough if you launched MS Word 2003 directly it would open a partially drawn window, stop, and freeze up unresponsive holding 50% of CPU and never go anywhere and you'd have to force it closed. At first we thought that this was just unique to this customer but after going to a couple of other VMs on the same Proxmox 2.0 server we found that Word was acting the same in those. So we had the idea of installing Microsoft Office 2003 Professional fresh in a fresh Windows 2003 Server VM on Proxmox that was not a conversion. We had the exact same problem on the fresh install. We had thought it might be a normal.dot issue but the issue exists on many VMs including the fresh install so we can't be talking about corruption. We had thought it might be the fault of Adobe Acrobat Standard 9.0 but it's not common to all VMs with this issue.
I've tried the VM with just an ide driver for the disk instead of the RedHat Virtio driver and that didn't make a difference. I tried different video card drivers and that didn't make a difference either. We've found that Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2010 both work just fine but switching to one of those for all customers involved is not an option as many will have big problems with the stupid "Ribbon" interface in the newer versions of Office.
Proxmox 2.0 is on a Dell 2950 with 2 Quadcore 5400 series Xeon processors with 32 GB of RAM. This machine is the master node in a cluster of 2 machines with a Dell 1950 as the secondary cluster node.
At this point we are stopped as far as converting from Xen to Proxmox because of this so any suggestions/answers would be greatly appreciated and much desired.
Thanks in advance,
Kyle