[SOLVED] P2V of Win 2K working but VM freezes randomly

[Mvandamme]

Hi,

I have an issue with a Win 2k SP4 VM which was created by P2V.
The VM boots but the performance are not great at all.
Sometimes, the VM freezes then resume all the pending operations.

I tried to respect the hardware configuration of the source machine.

There is the vm configuration :

boot: cdn
bootdisk: scsi1
cores: 2
cpu: qemu32
cpuunits: 50000
ide2: none,media=cdrom
keyboard: fr
memory: 256
name: ********
net0: rtl8139=2A:AE:92:06:55:A0,bridge=vmbr0
ostype: w2k
scsi2: local:102/vm-102-disk-4.qcow2,format=qcow2,size=40G
smbios1: uuid=fe0935a1-cb0a-4a94-8fd4-1739d684a225
sockets: 1
unused1: local:102/vm-102-disk-3.qcow2

How can I determine the source of the problem ? The source machine works perfectly !

 

[sumsum]

Try to increase Memory to 1024

 

[Mvandamme]

Already did that, same issue.

Thanks for the reply !

 

[manu]

I don't know for the freeze problem, but you should use the VirtIO drivers , see the proxmox wiki for examples. You will see massive improvements in performance.

 

[Mvandamme]

Seems to be solved by using the "Write through" HDD cache option.

I didn't know that Virtio drivers were available for Win2k.

Thanks for the reply and for the Virtio drivers.

 

[cilurnum]

Yes. It's a little flimsy but with this kind of thing I'd always be looking in the direction of any I/O holdups.