[SOLVED] Windows 10 32 bit no input during installation

[quarcskter]

I tried to install Windows 10 32 bit edition on Proxmox 8.2.4 and couldn't proceed the very first screen with language select. The VM doesn't react on any input from keyboard or mouse. Here is the VM config:

agent: 0
bios: seabios
boot: order=ide2;scsi0
cores: 4
cpu: host
ide0: storage:iso/virtio-win.iso,media=cdrom,size=708140K
ide2: storage:iso/Win10_22H2_Enterprise_English_x32.iso,media=cdrom,size=3845698K
kvm: 1
machine: pc-i440fx-9.0
memory: 16384
meta: creation-qemu=9.0.2,ctime=1723465209
name: windows-10-x86
net0: e1000=BC:24:11:73:C3:1A,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
ostype: win10
scsi0: storage:4000/vm-4000-disk-1.qcow2,cache=writeback,discard=on,size=80G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=ef9aa030-1662-4980-9eee-67e4c3d5becb
sockets: 1
tablet: 0
vmgenid: 84f3ce16-2a11-4521-adc6-b637f12841be

On the other hand Windows 10 x64 installation works as expected. What could be wrong and how can i fix it?

 

[quarcskter]

It's the same issue as it's described in this thread.

 

[_gabriel]

have you tried with reverting to the default qemu 8.x ?

 

[quarcskter]

It looks the issue is in the RAM amount. I assigned 16 GB of RAM to 32bit OS and it couldn't start properly. I started the VM with 2GB and it the input started to work.

 

[_gabriel]

cannot reproduce here, even if Windows OS 32bits cannot assign more than 4GB RAM , VM set to 16GB on vanilla pve 8.2 (shipped with qemu 8.1) works.

 

[Dhinesh1990]

It looks the issue is in the RAM amount. I assigned 16 GB of RAM to 32bit OS and it couldn't start properly. I started the VM with 2GB and it the input started to work.

I had same issue when assigning 4 GB RAM to Win10 32 bit OS. Reducing to 2GB fixed the issue. Now all keyboard and mouse inputs are working