VM won't start

[martinlegion]

Hello.
Today I found one of my VMs (Windows 2003) had stopped, and when I wanted to start it again it wouldn't work. After one second it stopped again.
I have proggramed a daily backup so I have an image 24hs old, so no big harm done, but I wanto to know what and why it happened, and what can I do to avoid it in the future.

Question 1: Can I run any diagnostics on the VM to see what might be wrong?
Question 2: When I try to start the VM I don't get any error on the web admin. Where can I look for some output that could give me some clue?
Question 3: I think the automated backup might have caused the problem. I use snapshot mode and save the backups in a different hd. The daily backup proggramed for 1:30 am today failed (I mean, the backup was not created, and I didn't recieve the report by email as usual), so the problem might have happened between yesterday night and 1:30 today, or at 1:30, caused by the backup itself.

I am running Proxmox 1.9

Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks

 

[martinlegion]

I just found the log I was lookinig for and comfirmed some of my suspicions:

/usr/sbin/qm start 101
VM is locked (backup)
VM 101 start failed -

So it was locked by the backup, right?
What I don't get is why it keep locked after rebooting the proxmox server. Is there a way to unlock it?

Thanks

 

[tom]

qm unlock 101

 

[martinlegion]

Simple!
Thank you tom, that did the trick.