Strange OVA Import problem detected on some dell servers

[hassoon]

Hello
Ive been doing exactly similar process on many servers and had a success always.
recently Im trying it on dell r210 and dell r210i and they seem having strange outcome.
the only note I have is that zfs pool exist on a single disk which I dont suspect to be the issue.
process are as follows which works on other servers
I download ovf by wget command
then tar -xvf file.ova
then
qm importdisk 222 file.vmdk zpool --format raw
also tried format qcow2
I can see the file being imported with success and I do add it as scsi and set it to boot
yet the system throws up this error
not a bootable device. pls see screenshot
now the strange thing is that if I do importdisk to local-lvm it works without a problem and boot its just the zfs pool that is having this issue.
is this normal or do I need to make some changes. Ive spent 2 days trying to figure out the main cause of this.
the only difference is that local-lvm is SSD and the pool is normal Sata Drive yet I cant see this as a cause for this error.
can someone pls help here

 

[floh8]

First, there existiert a special Command to import OVA files to pve. Look at the docu!

 

[hassoon]

Ive done both
qm importovf
also
qm importdisk
same results

 

[fiona]

Hi,
please share the output of pveversion -v and the VM configuration qm config <ID>. What does fdisk -l /dev/zvol/path/to/your/zvol show? Maybe it's https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5288 ?

 

[hassoon]

root@pve2:~# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 8.1.0 (running kernel: 6.5.11-8-pve)
pve-manager: 8.1.4 (running version: 8.1.4/ec5affc9e41f1d79)
proxmox-kernel-helper: 8.1.0
proxmox-kernel-6.5: 6.5.11-8
proxmox-kernel-6.5.11-8-pve-signed: 6.5.11-8
ceph-fuse: 17.2.7-pve2
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: 8.0.7
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.3.1
libpve-common-perl: 8.1.0
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: 8.0.5
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
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: 0.6.4
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 4.1.3
pve-cluster: 8.0.5
pve-container: 5.0.8
pve-docs: 8.1.3
pve-edk2-firmware: 4.2023.08-3
pve-firewall: 5.0.3
pve-firmware: 3.9-1
pve-ha-manager: 4.0.3
pve-i18n: 3.2.0
pve-qemu-kvm: 8.1.5-2
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-pve1