Small Business Server 2011 Installation fails

[promatiker]

Hello proxmox community,

we are new to proxmox and currently testing the system (3.1) for future use in our company. I am trying to install a MS Small Businnes Server 2011 in a proxmox virtaul machine. I created a VM with following configuration:

balloon: 2048
boot: dcn
bootdisk: sata0
cores: 4
ide2: none,media=cdrom
keyboard: de
memory: 16348
name: sbs11server
net0: e1000=8A:50:C5:C1:2C:86,bridge=vmbr0
ostype: win7
sata0: Images:103/vm-103-disk-1.qcow2,format=qcow2,size=125G
snaptime: 1386419021
sockets: 1

Our proxmox Server is a DELL 360 with 12 Cores, 32GB RAM and a hardware RAID controller.

I installed the OS with the MS install cd of our current server. The installation works fine. I am able to run the whole setup and at the end of the installation the system boots normally. I can work with the OS without any problems. But after I reboot the server for the first time I get this good known error:

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. Technical Information:

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009AF928, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000 ...)

I found this wiki topic and used the attached "mergeide.reg" before shutting down the server for the first time after a second new installation. The error persists. I am not migrating a running server. I installed the server by hand. So I think the mergeide.reg is not the right way to go. Am I right?

Then I found this advice in the forum. But the suggested bus controller swapping did not solve the problem.

I don't know what to do, for running SBS 11 on proxmox. The OS boots normally after installation but crashes after reboot. Do you have any suggestions?

Best regards.

 

[mir]

Try to disable the balloon driver by giving the server dedicated memory (option fixed memory). Balloon driver requires installing virtio drivers anyway.

 

[tom]

I never use sata for virtual disks, go for ide or virtio.

 

[mir]

I never use sata for virtual disks, go for ide or virtio.

As a side note: Live migration with sata is not supported in qemu-1.4

 

[promatiker]

Hello guys,

thank you very much for the fast answers. Your suggestions solved my issue. To avoid problems with the current VM configuration, I created a new VM and applied your changes. Then I installed SBS 11 again and the installation was much faster with the new configuration:

boot: dc
bootdisk: ide0
cores: 4
ide0: Images:103/vm-103-disk-1.qcow2,format=qcow2,size=200G
ide2: none,media=cdrom
keyboard: de
memory: 16384
name: sbs11server
net0: e1000=8C:E5:D7:25:BD:5F,bridge=vmbr0
ostype: win7
sockets: 1

And now it runs smoothly. All problems are gone. Thank you again.