PVE 7.0 host hangs while installing Windows guest

[Harmon]

The hypervisor runs on an Intel NUC (8 x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8365U CPU @ 1.60GHz 1 Thread) with 32 Gib RAM and the following packages installed.

proxmox-ve: 7.0-2 (running kernel: 5.11.22-4-pve) pve-manager: 7.0-11 (running version: 7.0-11/63d82f4e) pve-kernel-5.11: 7.0-7 pve-kernel-helper: 7.0-7 pve-kernel-5.11.22-4-pve: 5.11.22-8 ceph-fuse: 15.2.14-pve1 corosync: 3.1.2-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: 1.21-pve1 libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.3.0 libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.2.0-1 libpve-access-control: 7.0-4 libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.2-1 libpve-common-perl: 7.0-6 libpve-guest-common-perl: 4.0-2 libpve-http-server-perl: 4.0-2 libpve-storage-perl: 7.0-10 libspice-server1: 0.14.3-2.1 lvm2: 2.03.11-2.1 lxc-pve: 4.0.9-4 lxcfs: 4.0.8-pve2 novnc-pve: 1.2.0-3 proxmox-backup-client: 2.0.9-2 proxmox-backup-file-restore: 2.0.9-2 proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.2-1 proxmox-widget-toolkit: 3.3-6 pve-cluster: 7.0-3 pve-container: 4.0-9 pve-docs: 7.0-5 pve-edk2-firmware: 3.20200531-1 pve-firewall: 4.2-2 pve-firmware: 3.3-1 pve-ha-manager: 3.3-1 pve-i18n: 2.5-1 pve-qemu-kvm: 6.0.0-3 pve-xtermjs: 4.12.0-1 qemu-server: 7.0-13 smartmontools: 7.2-1 spiceterm: 3.2-2 vncterm: 1.7-1 zfsutils-linux: 2.0.5-pve1​

I follow the steps described in https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_2019_guest_best_practices to install a Windows server 2019 guest. Everything is ok until Windows installer says it is copying files. The host hangs when it copies around 65% of the files: lost connection, no response to physically connected keyboard neither. I have several tries but get the same results.

 

[oguz]

hi,


* is this the first VM you're setting up or do you already have other guests running?

* can you check journalctl and post what happens around the time it hangs?

 

[Harmon]

hi,


* is this the first VM you're setting up or do you already have other guests running?

* can you check journalctl and post what happens around the time it hangs?

Hello,

It is not the first VM as I have already been running an OPNsense VM on the hypervisor.

Sorry for not being able to provide with the journalctl result as I have gave up and formatted the hard disk drive to install another system. I did check logs in the web UI and failed to find anything suspicious.

 

[oguz]

Sorry for not being able to provide with the journalctl result as I have gave up and formatted the hard disk drive to install another system. I did check logs in the web UI and failed to find anything suspicious.

are you able to install windows normally after reinstallation?

 

[Harmon]

are you able to install windows normally after reinstallation?

With my CentOS Stream installation on the same device I successfully installed a Windows VM using Gnome Box.

 

[oguz]

it's hard to tell what the issue was, but if you want to try again please post the VM configuration here, it might have been a simple misconfiguration