Trouble installing Ubuntu 16.04 VE

[Lamar Canoe]

I have Proxmox installed on a machine and have successfully create VM running other systems.

I downloaded the Ubuntu 16.04 .iso and uploaded it to the server. When I configure a new VM, selecting the ubuntu iso it fails to install. It either goes straight to a black screen with a blinking cursor, or it goes to the purple start screen, but after selecting install goes to the black screen OR it shows a black screen with outputs on what was installed but always says "Failed to start login service."

I have already tried pressing F6 on the menu and selecting nomodeset and nolapic.

The computer has a Radeon X300. If someone could please help me figure out why Ubuntu is refusing to install I would appreciate it.

 

[fireon]

Can post that outputs for information:

pveversion
qm config <youVMID>

Do an checksumcheck of your ISO.

 

[Lamar Canoe]

Can post that outputs for information:

pveversion
qm config <youVMID>

Do an checksumcheck of your ISO.

pveversion output:

pve-manager/4.3-1/e7cdc165 (running kernel: 4.4.19-1-pve)

qm config 100 output:

bootdisk: scsi0
cores: 1
ide2: local:iso/ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso,media=cdrom
kvm: 0
memory: 1024
name: Ubuntu
net0: virtio=<...>,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
ostype: 126
scsi0: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-1,size=32G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid= <UUID here> 
sockets: 1

 

[fireon]

Looks good. Maybe 1024MB memory are to low, also only one core... for the installer, never used it with so low memoryusage. Can give the VM more MEM for test? 4096MB, 4cores
The iso is ok? Checksum?

But be aware of an Ubuntu Unity Desktop at KVM. The performance also with spice is very poor. Unity is not designed for virtualisations. Use Xubuntu/Mate with Spice or x2go works really fine.

 

[tom]

kvm: 0

Why?

 

[fireon]

Why? KVM: 0

Huch.... thanks tom, i have overlooked...

 

[Lamar Canoe]

Why?

I believe that's because I set KVM hardware virtualization to No in the Options tab for my VM. If I leave it as Yes it won't start and says Error: No accelerator found!

 

[tom]

You need VT support in your CPU and you need to enable it in your mainboard bios, seems you hardware does not support it?

Please send the specification of your CPU and mainboard.

 

[Lamar Canoe]

You need VT support in your CPU and you need to enable it in your mainboard bios, seems you hardware does not support it?

Please send the specification of your CPU and mainboard.

lscpu output:

Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 1
On-line CPU(s) list: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 15
Model: 6
Model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20 GHz
Stepping: 5
CPU Mhz: 3192.125
BogoMIPS: 6384.25
L1d Cache: 16k
L2 cache: 16K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0

dmidecode -t 2 output

dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.3 present.

Handle 0x0200, DMI type 2, 8 bytes
Base Board Information
    Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
    Product Name: 0J3492
    Version:
    Serial Number: ..

This machine has run Ubuntu before as it's main OS. I don't know if having it installed on a VM on Proxmox would make a difference.

Another issue I'm having is that the CPU is constantly running at 100% and I'm not sure why. Ubuntu is finally installing it seems but it is taking absurdly long (Going on 3+ hours now I believe).

 

[Lamar Canoe]

Can post that outputs for information:

pveversion
qm config <youVMID>

Do an checksumcheck of your ISO.

The checksum thing may have been the issue. The .iso I was originally using didn't match the hash value for the version. Re-downloaded it and now it's installing. Although, it is extremely slow. CPU running at 100%.

 

[morph027]

Can you post the output from

egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

 

[Lamar Canoe]

Can you post the output from

egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

I tried it but it didn't produce any output.

 

[fireon]

Then you have VT support in your BIOS no enabled or your HW does not support it. You have an very old P4, this will not work. Maybe LXC would be a possibility for you when you are not able to activate VT. https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/System_Requirements
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Linux_Container

Is this your CPU?
http://ark.intel.com/products/27500...g-HT-Technology-3_20-GHz-1M-Cache-800-MHz-FSB

 

[Lamar Canoe]

I think so yes does that mean it won't work?

 

[morph027]

Unfortunately yes....it will nor work with KVM virtualization. Might be that it's just disabled in BIOS.

I don't think it's your CPU, as it's only 32bit....Proxmox does not work on 32bit Can you post the output of:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

 

[Lamar Canoe]

Unfortunately yes....it will nor work with KVM virtualization. Might be that it's just disabled in BIOS.

I don't think it's your CPU, as it's only 32bit....Proxmox does not work on 32bit Can you post the output of:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

cat /proc/cpuinfo output:

model name : INtel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
stepping: 5
cpu MHz : 3192.128
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clf lush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts nopl pni dte s64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
bugs : 
bogomips : 6384.25
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual 
power management: