[SOLVED] RedHat Enterprise 8 not booting after Migration to proxmox

[LaviS]

English Version
Hello there,
i have migrated my VMs with this tutorial Migration Virtual to Virtual this worked actually good, until I migrated my RedHat 8 VM, the import worked withoud any errors, but than i started to boot I got this and it is stucking there (8hours and nothing happens):

German Version:
Hallo zusammen,
ich habe meine VMs von meinem ESXi CLuster zu Proxmox transferiert mit folgendem Tutorial Migration V-2-V, und das hat ja gut funktionert, bis ich die RHEL ( VM starten wollte, der Import verlief ohne jeglichen Fehler, aber beim Start ist mir jetzt folgendes aufgefallen (nach 8h tut sich noch immer nichts) Bitte um Hilfe Danke!

Screenshots:


My VM Settings:



Please help me to fix this, there are very important files on it (i have a backup for my ESXi but i dont want to go back to an ESXi)
Greets Clemi361

 

[LaviS]

Update: I use Proxmox 7
Here are my Package versions:
proxmox-ve: 7.1-1 (running kernel: 5.13.19-6-pve)
pve-manager: 7.1-11 (running version: 7.1-11/8d529482)
pve-kernel-helper: 7.1-13
pve-kernel-5.13: 7.1-9
pve-kernel-5.13.19-6-pve: 5.13.19-14
pve-kernel-5.13.19-2-pve: 5.13.19-4
ceph-fuse: 15.2.15-pve1
corosync: 3.1.5-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: 1.22-pve2
libproxmox-acme-perl: 1.4.1
libproxmox-backup-qemu0: 1.2.0-1
libpve-access-control: 7.1-6
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.2-1
libpve-common-perl: 7.1-5
libpve-guest-common-perl: 4.1-1
libpve-http-server-perl: 4.1-1
libpve-storage-perl: 7.1-1
libspice-server1: 0.14.3-2.1
lvm2: 2.03.11-2.1
lxc-pve: 4.0.11-1
lxcfs: 4.0.11-pve1
novnc-pve: 1.3.0-2
proxmox-backup-client: 2.1.5-1
proxmox-backup-file-restore: 2.1.5-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.3-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 3.4-7
pve-cluster: 7.1-3
pve-container: 4.1-4
pve-docs: 7.1-2
pve-edk2-firmware: 3.20210831-2
pve-firewall: 4.2-5
pve-firmware: 3.3-6
pve-ha-manager: 3.3-3
pve-i18n: 2.6-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 6.1.1-2
pve-xtermjs: 4.16.0-1
qemu-server: 7.1-4
smartmontools: 7.2-1
spiceterm: 3.2-2
swtpm: 0.7.1~bpo11+1
vncterm: 1.7-1
zfsutils-linux: 2.1.2-pve1

I am looking forward for suggestions.
Thanks!

 

[ness1602]

Can you boot into safe mode and execute dracut -f --regenerate-all and then try again?

 

[aaron]

Did you check if the VM needs legacy BIOS boot mode (Default / SeaBIOS) or UEFI (OVMF) ?

 

[LaviS]

Did you check if the VM needs legacy BIOS boot mode (Default / SeaBIOS) or UEFI (OVMF) ?

Hello,
yea i had to cahnge BIOS Settings to UEFI than it worked

Thanks for your help

 

[aaron]

yea i had to cahnge BIOS Settings to UEFI than it worked

it is one of usual reasons why a VM will not get to the bootloader stage.

I went ahead and marked the thread as solved.