Solved - Performance of Windows KVM

[bigfishinnet]

Hi all I have an issue with 2 recent Proxmox installs? These are now the 5th and sixth installs in this business. The machines giving me grief are a HP Dl385 G5 and HP ML350 G6 - all the firm ware is uptodate on the servers and I downloaded latest Proxmox and do normla install. The windows machines appear to be stalling or freezing monmentairly and sometime they become unuseable while everything on the host is fine?

Here is one Proxmox install that works fine (I am running Windows for Terminal Servers). I think this is the latest version of Proxmox.
pveversion -v
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 3.3-139 (running kernel: 2.6.32-33-pve)
pve-manager: 3.3-5 (running version: 3.3-5/bfebec03)
pve-kernel-2.6.32-33-pve: 2.6.32-138
pve-kernel-2.6.32-34-pve: 2.6.32-140
pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve: 2.6.32-114
lvm2: 2.02.98-pve4
clvm: 2.02.98-pve4
corosync-pve: 1.4.7-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-3
libqb0: 0.11.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.2.0-2
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-4
fence-agents-pve: 4.0.10-1
pve-cluster: 3.0-15
qemu-server: 3.3-3
pve-firmware: 1.1-3
libpve-common-perl: 3.0-19
libpve-access-control: 3.0-15
libpve-storage-perl: 3.0-25
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.4-3
vncterm: 1.1-8
vzctl: 4.0-1pve6
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.1-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.1-10
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1
glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-1

Here is one of the Proxmox machines giving me grief. I downloaded new ISO and install proxmox. But this version looks older??? Can anyone advise or can help with debugging issues? I have tried apt-get dist-upgrade?

proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 3.2-136 (running kernel: 2.6.32-32-pve)
pve-manager: 3.3-1 (running version: 3.3-1/a06c9f73)
pve-kernel-2.6.32-32-pve: 2.6.32-136
lvm2: 2.02.98-pve4
clvm: 2.02.98-pve4
corosync-pve: 1.4.7-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-3
libqb0: 0.11.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.2.0-2
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-4
fence-agents-pve: 4.0.10-1
pve-cluster: 3.0-15
qemu-server: 3.1-34
pve-firmware: 1.1-3
libpve-common-perl: 3.0-19
libpve-access-control: 3.0-15
libpve-storage-perl: 3.0-23
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.4-3
vncterm: 1.1-8
vzctl: 4.0-1pve6
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.1-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.1-5
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1
glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-1

Thanks in advance

Stephen

 

[bigfishinnet]

Re: Performance of Windows KVM

Hi Just an update. I think it was the drivers for the default e1000 network card. I had this "Windows became un-responsive issue" when using this e1000 driver on 3.3 and 3.4. The windows servers did run fine when I accessed them through the console using noVNC.

When I updated to Virtio drivers things are smooth now. I never had the issue in 3.1 though?

Thanks Stephen