PVE 8 boot issue with Ubuntu Cloud Image due to broken symlink

Dec 31, 2020
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Hi,

after using qm importdisk 1013 noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img local-zfs to import an Ubuntu Cloud Image, the symlink for disk-0 breaks for some reason:
Code:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 20 18:02 /dev/rpool/data/vm-1013-disk-0 -> ../../zd48p16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Apr 20 18:01 /dev/rpool/data/vm-1013-disk-0-part1 -> ../../zd48p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 20 18:01 /dev/rpool/data/vm-1013-disk-0-part14 -> ../../zd48p14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 20 18:01 /dev/rpool/data/vm-1013-disk-0-part15 -> ../../zd48p15

When this happens, the VM doesn't boot anymore.

After applying a workaround like this:

Code:
root@hyp-dus01-01:~# rm /dev/zvol/rpool/data/vm-1013-disk-0

root@hyp-dus01-01:~# ln -s /dev/zd48 /dev/zvol/rpool/data/vm-1013-disk-0

root@hyp-dus01-01:~# ls -lha /dev/zvol/rpool/data/vm-1013-di*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Apr 20 18:53 /dev/zvol/rpool/data/vm-1013-disk-0 -> /dev/zd48
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 20 18:45 /dev/zvol/rpool/data/vm-1013-disk-0-part1 -> ../../../zd48p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Apr 20 18:45 /dev/zvol/rpool/data/vm-1013-disk-0-part14 -> ../../../zd48p14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Apr 20 18:45 /dev/zvol/rpool/data/vm-1013-disk-0-part15 -> ../../../zd48p15
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr 20 18:45 /dev/zvol/rpool/data/vm-1013-disk-1 -> ../../../zd192

The VM boots again. This issue happens only with noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img but not with ubuntu-22.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img.

PVE is up2date:

Code:
# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 8.1.0 (running kernel: 6.5.13-1-pve)
pve-manager: 8.1.4 (running version: 8.1.4/ec5affc9e41f1d79)
proxmox-kernel-helper: 8.1.0
proxmox-kernel-6.5.13-1-pve-signed: 6.5.13-1
proxmox-kernel-6.5: 6.5.13-1
proxmox-kernel-6.2.16-20-pve: 6.2.16-20
proxmox-kernel-6.2: 6.2.16-20
proxmox-kernel-6.2.16-15-pve: 6.2.16-15
pve-kernel-5.13.19-2-pve: 5.13.19-4
ceph-fuse: 16.2.11+ds-2
corosync: 3.1.7-pve3
criu: 3.17.1-2
glusterfs-client: 10.3-5
ifupdown2: 3.2.0-1+pmx8
ksm-control-daemon: 1.4-1
libjs-extjs: 7.0.0-4
libknet1: 1.28-pve1
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.5.0
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.4.1
libproxmox-rs-perl: 0.3.3
libpve-access-control: 8.1.2
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.3.1
libpve-common-perl: 8.1.1
libpve-guest-common-perl: 5.0.6
libpve-http-server-perl: 5.0.5
libpve-network-perl: 0.9.5
libpve-rs-perl: 0.8.8
libpve-storage-perl: 8.1.0
libspice-server1: 0.15.1-1
lvm2: 2.03.16-2
lxc-pve: 5.0.2-4
lxcfs: 5.0.3-pve4
novnc-pve: 1.4.0-3
openvswitch-switch: 3.1.0-2+deb12u1
proxmox-backup-client: 3.1.4-1
proxmox-backup-file-restore: 3.1.4-1
proxmox-kernel-helper: 8.1.0
proxmox-mail-forward: 0.2.3
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.4.0
proxmox-offline-mirror-helper: 0.6.5
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 4.1.4
pve-cluster: 8.0.5
pve-container: 5.0.8
pve-docs: 8.1.4
pve-edk2-firmware: 4.2023.08-4
pve-firewall: 5.0.3
pve-firmware: 3.9-2
pve-ha-manager: 4.0.3
pve-i18n: 3.2.1
pve-qemu-kvm: 8.1.5-3
pve-xtermjs: 5.3.0-3
qemu-server: 8.0.10
smartmontools: 7.3-pve1
spiceterm: 3.3.0
swtpm: 0.8.0+pve1
vncterm: 1.8.0
zfsutils-linux: 2.2.2-pve2

This also happend when I convert the image to raw first. I'm not quite sure why the image messes up things on the hypervisor.
 

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