Ver 1.4 and Windows 2008 Std Edition + SMP

[bleau69]

Hi All,

I have a fresh install of Proxmox 1.4, with all the latest updates applied but I am having troubles with a Win 2k8 Std Edition KVM VM. It runs ok with 1 cpu and 1 core configured but there are random hang ups. Most recently this morning where the console and RDC sessions were available but the screen wouldn't refresh. I was able to ctrl-alt-esc in RDC and use the Windows restart function though. Could be as simple as adjusting the video graphics adapter which I haven't tried because this was the first time I'd seen this behavior.

The biggest issue is when I run the same VM with more than 1 cpu or core. The VM boots normally and runs great, but on reboot, it will hang and never restart. I get a black console screen with an underscore cursor in the upper left hand part of the screen. There are no errors in qm monitor, but the CPU hangs at 96% most commonly (or 96% of all the CPUs configured, ~288%) dmesg shows little other than -

...
kvm: 18089: cpu0 unimplemented perfctr wrmsr: 0xc0010000 data 0x0
kvm: 18089: cpu0 unimplemented perfctr wrmsr: 0xc0010001 data 0x0
...

If I hit the Reset button in the pve web interface, the VM will restart normally. After logging into the VM, there is no report of any error indicating Windows experienced a failure, so the OS didn't crash or fail to shutdown all processes. I tried selecting the Guest OS Type as Other and Windows 2003, but that also exhibited the same behavior.

Here are the vitals for the host machine:

-Dell SC1435, 24GB RAM, Seagate ES 1TB drive, Dual CPU, Quad Core (AMD Opteron Processor 2350)

Proxmox info:
pve-manager: 1.4-10 (pve-manager/1.4/4403)
qemu-server: 1.1-8
pve-kernel: 2.6.24-16
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.11.0-2
pve-firmware: 1
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.23-1pve3
vzdump: 1.2-5
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1

Kernel:
Linux pxmx 2.6.24-8-pve #1 SMP

VM Config file:
name: server.domain.com
ide2: iso-images:iso/WIN2008SERVER_EN_DVD.iso,media=cdrom
vlan0: rtl8139=1E:CD:89:B3:B21
bootdisk: ide0
ostype: w2k8
ide0: local:66227/vm-66227-disk-1.raw
memory: 2048
onboot: 1
sockets: 1
description: Windows 2008 Std Ed
cores: 1
ide1: local:66227/vm-66226-disk-3.qcow2
boot: cad
freeze: 0
cpuunits: 1000
acpi: 1
kvm: 1
localtime: 0

This VM doesn't reside on the hosts shared storage, it's on the local disk. The second IDE 0:1 drive was from a Win 2k8 Web Edition install on a 1.3 host with the same hardware and just there to grab old data off it.

Running Win2k8 Datacenter Edition or Windows 2k3 (any edition) on any Proxmox version <1.4 runs great with CPU counts from 1 to 8.

Has any one else run into a similar condition under 1.4 and found a fix?

Thanks!

 

[resignation]

First off try again using the Intel e1000 network driver, i've had nothing but bad experiences with the realtek rtl8139..

 

[bleau69]

Whoops, I meant to mention I did try the e1000 driver (latest from Intel) with the same results.

 

[BiagioParuolo]

I've the same problem with win2k3..... that machine goes good for some time, but after 1.4 upgrade, I had this problem. I changed net card to e1000 from rtl , but problem is still here...