Win 2003 unexpected reboot

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Priit Hansen

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Hello

I have a windows 2003 server running on proxmox with virtio hdd drivers that's been having unexpexted reboots.

Windows logs say after the reboot that previous shutdown was unexpexted

And after that there's two ftdisk errors:
"The system could not sucessfully load the crash dump driver"
and "Configuring the Page file crash dump failed"..

Today the server went down for about half an hour during which the proxmox panel shows it had 100%cpu and 10M disk read.
When I finally got to the console view it had been rebooted and was doing chdisk.

The windows logs are not very helpfull or maybe I dont know where to look. Also is there any guest system specific log files in proxmox that I should check for errors?
 
what physical storage do you use for the virtual disks?
 
It's linux software raid on the local computer.
Like this: http://www.priithansen.com/Serveri_HDD_partitsioonid.png

This server replaced one with hardware raid that had a meltdown and all the data locked in because no replacement for 5 year old raid could be found. I know proxmox doesn't like soft raid but theres 2 other debian guests on there that have no problems one running backuppc for the entire office.

So I understand if You tell me to bugger of with my soft raid but could You at least point me to the relevant log files.
 
power off the VM and copy the virtual disk, start the VM with the new disk.

and yes, check the underlying hardware, syslog and dmesg. and yes, mdraid is not our preferred stack.

if you cannot find anything on the underlying hardware, upgrade to very latest prebuilt virtio driver inside windows (http://people.redhat.com/vrozenfe/build-26/)
 
Thank's for the help!

Was hoping theres some specific guest log's in proxmox but guess I'll have to digg around in the system logs then.

"power off the VM and copy the virtual disk, start the VM with the new disk." < What to you mean by that?
 
virtual disk are just files on your filesystem. so if you poweroff the VM, you can copy the VM so all data is re-written to another place on the disk. maybe this helps or shows problems. try it.
 
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