VMs Timeout when starting

punjprateek

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Friends,
I have 8 VMs on a Asus ESC8000 G4 Proxmox Node with following specs:

Server Spec:
4210R x 2
16GB ECC RAM x 12
8 x GTX 1660 Super
2TB Nvme Drive x 2


VM config:
2 Socket, 2 Core, 4 Thread vCPUs
16 GB RAM (ballooning is off)
1x GTX 1660 Super GPU PCI Passthrough
OS- windows 10

When I am starting VM, Sometimes it timeouts with following message

Code:
TASK ERROR: start failed: command '/usr/bin/kvm -id 101 -name VM-01 -no-shutdown -chardev 'socket,id=qmp,path=/var/run/qemu-server/101.qmp,server=on,wait=off' -mon 'chardev=qmp,mode=control' -chardev 'socket,id=qmp-event,path=/var/run/qmeventd.sock,reconnect=5' -mon 'chardev=qmp-event,mode=control' -pidfile /var/run/qemu-server/101.pid -daemonize -smbios 'type=1,uuid=a134015d-33aa-40e5-b5de-c1538643c34a' -drive 'if=pflash,unit=0,format=raw,readonly=on,file=/usr/share/pve-edk2-firmware//OVMF_CODE.fd' -drive 'if=pflash,unit=1,format=raw,id=drive-efidisk0,size=131072,file=/dev/zvol/a_nvme-storage/vm-101-disk-0' -smp '4,sockets=2,cores=2,maxcpus=4' -nodefaults -boot 'menu=on,strict=on,reboot-timeout=1000,splash=/usr/share/qemu-server/bootsplash.jpg' -vnc 'unix:/var/run/qemu-server/101.vnc,password=on' -no-hpet -cpu 'host,hv_ipi,hv_relaxed,hv_reset,hv_runtime,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_stimer,hv_synic,hv_time,hv_vapic,hv_vpindex,+kvm_pv_eoi,+kvm_pv_unhalt' -m 16384 -readconfig /usr/share/qemu-server/pve-q35-4.0.cfg -device 'vmgenid,guid=bf349b39-ebaa-426f-b715-fbad5e87ae7c' -device 'usb-tablet,id=tablet,bus=ehci.0,port=1' -device 'vfio-pci,host=0000:1d:00.0,id=hostpci0.0,bus=ich9-pcie-port-1,addr=0x0.0,multifunction=on' -device 'vfio-pci,host=0000:1d:00.1,id=hostpci0.1,bus=ich9-pcie-port-1,addr=0x0.1' -device 'vfio-pci,host=0000:1d:00.2,id=hostpci0.2,bus=ich9-pcie-port-1,addr=0x0.2' -device 'vfio-pci,host=0000:1d:00.3,id=hostpci0.3,bus=ich9-pcie-port-1,addr=0x0.3' -device 'vmware-svga,id=vga,vgamem_mb=128,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x1' -chardev 'socket,path=/var/run/qemu-server/101.qga,server=on,wait=off,id=qga0' -device 'virtio-serial,id=qga0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8' -device 'virtserialport,chardev=qga0,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0' -iscsi 'initiator-name=iqn.1993-08.org.debian:01:b96bba9252a' -device 'ahci,id=ahci0,multifunction=on,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7' -drive 'file=/dev/zvol/a_nvme-storage/vm-101-disk-1,if=none,id=drive-sata0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=io_uring,detect-zeroes=on' -device 'ide-hd,bus=ahci0.0,drive=drive-sata0,id=sata0,bootindex=100' -netdev 'type=tap,id=net0,ifname=tap101i0,script=/var/lib/qemu-server/pve-bridge,downscript=/var/lib/qemu-server/pve-bridgedown' -device 'e1000,mac=7A:91:9D:56:BC:D8,netdev=net0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x12,id=net0,bootindex=101' -rtc 'driftfix=slew,base=localtime' -machine 'type=pc-q35-6.0+pve0' -global 'kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard'' failed: got timeout




When I reduce the RAM to 8GB the VM Boots fine. I have almost 70 GB RAM Free on my server, still why is this happening? Any ideas?
 
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