Proxmox 5.1 nested - assistance needed

[breakaway9000]

Hi All

I've got Proxmox 5.1 running as a VMWare ESXi guest. So far everything seems OK. I need to run several Linux CT and one Windows 2012 R2 VM.

I have so far set up a single VM on ESXi and installed proxmox on top. It's all working properly, and I've followed the "Nested Virtualization Guide" found here to tune the system properly.

I setup a single Windows 2012 R2 virtual machine - but it's not quite working properly. When I start up the VM with CPU type = KVM, the installer gets to the part where it shows the Windows logo and just hangs there forever.

I thought this was related to the CPU type - so I tried CPU type = Host. When I tried to power on the VM, I get the below error and it won't power on:

kvm: error: failed to set MSR 0x38d to 0x0
kvm: /home/builder/source/qemu.tmp/target/i386/kvm.c:1833: kvm_put_msrs: Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed.
TASK ERROR: start failed: command '/usr/bin/kvm -id 102 -chardev 'socket,id=qmp,path=/var/run/qemu-server/102.qmp,server,nowait' -mon 'chardev=qmp,mode=control' -pidfile /var/run/qemu-server/102.pid -daemonize -smbios 'type=1,uuid=79bc56ae-96ce-4816-954f-8ee34280c6f2' -name 2012r2vm -smp '1,sockets=1,cores=1,maxcpus=1' -nodefaults -boot 'menu=on,strict=on,reboot-timeout=1000,splash=/usr/share/qemu-server/bootsplash.jpg' -vga std -vnc unix:/var/run/qemu-server/102.vnc,x509,password -cpu host,+kvm_pv_unhalt,+kvm_pv_eoi -m 1024 -k en-us -device 'pci-bridge,id=pci.1,chassis_nr=1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1e' -device 'pci-bridge,id=pci.2,chassis_nr=2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1f' -device 'piix3-usb-uhci,id=uhci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2' -device 'usb-tablet,id=tablet,bus=uhci.0,port=1' -device 'virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3' -iscsi 'initiator-name=iqn.1993-08.org.debian:01:9e4ba6879ac' -drive 'file=/mnt/datastore/template/iso/Server2012R2.iso,if=none,id=drive-ide2,media=cdrom,aio=threads' -device 'ide-cd,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide2,id=ide2,bootindex=200' -drive 'file=/mnt/datastore/images/102/vm-102-disk-1.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio0,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=native,detect-zeroes=on' -device 'virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive-virtio0,id=virtio0,bus=pci.0,addr=0xa,bootindex=100' -netdev 'type=tap,id=net0,ifname=tap102i0,script=/var/lib/qemu-server/pve-bridge,downscript=/var/lib/qemu-server/pve-bridgedown' -device 'e1000,mac=E2:29:4C:02:27:57,netdev=net0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x12,id=net0,bootindex=300'' failed: exit code 1

The Proxmox VM which is running on top of VMWare ESXi definitely appears to have the correct virtualization extensions loaded (each of the 8 CPUs reports extension "VMX" as the guide says it should):

~# egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm epb tpr_shadow vnmi ept vpid dtherm ida arat pln pts
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm epb tpr_shadow vnmi ept vpid dtherm ida arat pln pts
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm epb tpr_shadow vnmi ept vpid dtherm ida arat pln pts
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm epb tpr_shadow vnmi ept vpid dtherm ida arat pln pts
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm epb tpr_shadow vnmi ept vpid dtherm ida arat pln pts
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm epb tpr_shadow vnmi ept vpid dtherm ida arat pln pts
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm epb tpr_shadow vnmi ept vpid dtherm ida arat pln pts
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm epb tpr_shadow vnmi ept vpid dtherm ida arat pln pts

Output of lscpu:

# lscpu
Architecture:          x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                8
On-line CPU(s) list:   0-7
Thread(s) per core:    1
Core(s) per socket:    8
Socket(s):             1
NUMA node(s):          1
Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
CPU family:            6
Model:                 45
Model name:            Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
Stepping:              2
CPU MHz:               2000.000
BogoMIPS:              4000.00
Virtualization:        VT-x
Hypervisor vendor:     VMware
Virtualization type:   full
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:             32K
L2 cache:              256K
L3 cache:              15360K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-7
Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx hypervisor lahf_lm epb tpr_shadow vnmi ept vpid dtherm ida arat pln pts

Any ideas on what's going on?

Edit - I'd like to add that if I Go to "Options" and disable KVM virtualization, the VM will boot up and get into the installer but it is very slow (as expected) so that's why I'm trying to get this working.

Edit 2 - added output of "lscpu"