VMs Not Starting Properly

[Dan9186]

I'm relatively new to proxmox so please bear with me if I have to ask a handful of questions.

I've got a box running the version 1.4 VE that was compiled for 32bit with 3 Linux guests running on it. All three have been shutdown, restarted, etc plenty of times and every time have come back up working as expected. Yesterday I had to shutdown the host for a little maintenance and when it came back up 2 of my 3 guests don't respond. They act as if they've started, but their memory usage is not up to their norm and I'm unable to VNC or SSH into them.

I've not had an opportunity just yet to ensure that I booted into the correct kernel or not, but wanted to first ask the easy way to quickly identify which kernel I should be booting into?

Second thing I wanted to ask is whether or not there is a way to take a container and read files from it such that even if the guest wont load properly that I can recover data from it?

The last thing I wanted to know is if a VM hoses like that is there a way to access it directly from the host since I can't SSH or VNC into it?

Thanks in advance,
Dan

 

[udo]

I'm relatively new to proxmox so please bear with me if I have to ask a handful of questions.

I've got a box running the version 1.4 VE that was compiled for 32bit with 3 Linux guests running on it. All three have been shutdown, restarted, etc plenty of times and every time have come back up working as expected. Yesterday I had to shutdown the host for a little maintenance and when it came back up 2 of my 3 guests don't respond. They act as if they've started, but their memory usage is not up to their norm and I'm unable to VNC or SSH into them.

I've not had an opportunity just yet to ensure that I booted into the correct kernel or not, but wanted to first ask the easy way to quickly identify which kernel I should be booting into?

Second thing I wanted to ask is whether or not there is a way to take a container and read files from it such that even if the guest wont load properly that I can recover data from it?

The last thing I wanted to know is if a VM hoses like that is there a way to access it directly from the host since I can't SSH or VNC into it?

Thanks in advance,
Dan

Hi,
the 32bit-version is not supported from the proxmox-team... you must help yourself.
Look with "pveversion -v" which kernels do you have and which are running.
The data from the container are below /var/lib/vz/private/VMID (config in /etc/vz/conf/)

Try to start in a shell:

vzctl start VMID

and look for error-messages.

If the container are running you can go inside with

vzctl enter VMID

Udo