Updated to pvetest, PXE booting not working.

[aalmenar]

Hi everyone,

I updated one of my servers to pvetest (To test precisely) new package versions.

Now i create VMs (KVM) but PXE no longer works. When the machine is turned on, i get the following:

Booting from Hard Disk...
Boot failed: not a bootable disk

Booting from ROM...
iPXE (PCI 00:12.0) starting execution...

And there it stays. Tried looking in the forums and IRC, but no luck at the moment.

Tried looking for some more information on the logs but also there is not much information.

In case you ask, the vlan where it is configured works on other proxmox server and pxe boots and installs the vm. (So network config discarded).

1 - Proxmox interface says Status: internal-error.
2 - My pveversion -v

~ # pveversion -v
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 3.1-119 (running kernel: 2.6.32-27-pve)
pve-manager: 3.1-40 (running version: 3.1-40/6ab534d2)
pve-kernel-2.6.32-20-pve: 2.6.32-100
pve-kernel-2.6.32-27-pve: 2.6.32-119
pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve: 2.6.32-114
pve-kernel-2.6.32-23-pve: 2.6.32-109
lvm2: 2.02.98-pve4
clvm: 2.02.98-pve4
corosync-pve: 1.4.5-1
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: 4.0.5-1
pve-cluster: 3.0-11
qemu-server: 3.1-14
pve-firmware: 1.1-1
libpve-common-perl: 3.0-13
libpve-access-control: 3.0-10
libpve-storage-perl: 3.0-19
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.4-3
vncterm: 1.1-6
vzctl: 4.0-1pve4
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.1-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 1.7-3
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1
glusterfs-client: 3.4.1-1

If there's any more information i can give please let me know. I dont know anywhere else where to look for information.

Cheers.

 

[dietmar]

I can reproduce that here. Just posted to the qemu-devel list:

sere http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-01/msg03921.html

 

[dietmar]

I uploaded a fix for that - please can you test?

# wget http://download.proxmox.com/debian/dists/wheezy/pvetest/binary-amd64/pve-qemu-kvm_1.7-4_amd64.deb
# dpkg -i pve-qemu-kvm_1.7-4_amd64.deb

 

[aalmenar]

Nice, The fix is working, at least with VirtIO Network card configured.

Nice job, a thanks a lot.

 

[aalmenar]

Incredibly, i opened this bug almost 3 years ago, but today with latest pve no-suscription happens again but this time with proxmox 4.3

@dietmar any ideas ?

Booting from Hard Disk...
Boot failed: not a bootable disk

Booting from ROM...
iPXE (PCI 00:12.0) starting execution...

pveversion -v

proxmox-ve: 4.3-71 (running kernel: 4.4.16-1-pve)
pve-manager: 4.3-9 (running version: 4.3-9/f7c6f0cd)
pve-kernel-4.4.21-1-pve: 4.4.21-71
pve-kernel-4.4.16-1-pve: 4.4.16-64
pve-kernel-4.4.19-1-pve: 4.4.19-66
lvm2: 2.02.116-pve3
corosync-pve: 2.4.0-1
libqb0: 1.0-1
pve-cluster: 4.0-46
qemu-server: 4.0-92
pve-firmware: 1.1-10
libpve-common-perl: 4.0-79
libpve-access-control: 4.0-19
libpve-storage-perl: 4.0-68
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.8-1
vncterm: 1.2-1
pve-docs: 4.3-12
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.7.0-4
pve-container: 1.0-80
pve-firewall: 2.0-31
pve-ha-manager: 1.0-35
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-1
glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-2+deb8u2
lxc-pve: 2.0.5-1
lxcfs: 2.0.4-pve2
criu: 1.6.0-1
novnc-pve: 0.5-8
smartmontools: 6.5+svn4324-1~pve80
zfsutils: 0.6.5.8-pve13~bpo80

 

[dietmar]

Incredibly, i opened this bug almost 3 years ago, but today with latest pve no-suscription happens again

Well, bugs are quite common in complex systems :-/ But I think it is not the same bug from 3 years ago ;-)

but this time with proxmox 4.3

This is a know issue introduced with qemu 2.7 - we expect a fix soon.

 

[fabian]

tracked in https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182

 

[morph027]

Ran into the same issue yesterday...

Luckily I wanted to install an Ubuntu Pressed recipe, this one works around pxe: https://morph027.gitlab.io/post/pve-kickseed/

Sure, does not apply for all pxe solutions, but just in case someone is stepping into this thread after googling around.