Windows 2012 Essentials & Network (Virtio)

[StuartIanNaylor]

I must be doing something wrong. I am loving proxmox but maybe I am doing something dumb.<br>
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Anyone give me a dummies guide to networking?<br>
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What I want to do is set up a 2x VMs smoothwall router and windows 2012 essentials.<br>
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I have three network cards 2x broadcom and a dlink.<br>
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I have the 10mmbs dlink connected to the internet on vmbr0<br>
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Then a bond created on eth1, eth2 (2x broadcom)<br>
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Then vmbr1 created on that.<br>
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The smoothwall router works fine.<br>
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Windows 2012 just will not connect to the internet. I have included forwarders in the DNS.<br>
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Anyone know if there are any gotcha's with virtio, bridging and windows server 2012 as I am pulling my hair out?<br>
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I just want to demonstrate proxmox with two servers and the ability to migrate and back up across the two.<br>
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I think I might have to go back to bare metal <img src="images/smilies/icon_sad.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Sad" smilieid="11" class="inlineimg"><br>
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Stuart

Maybe because installed on debian squeeze rather than the ISO because of software RAID?

 

[blurrrr]

Does the WS2012 have LAN-Access? Tried ping / tracert?
If the Firewall is activ and between router and WS2012 - are the rules okay? NAT on?

 

[StuartIanNaylor]

I am thinking its another M$ conspiracy. Have installed this thing several times on proxmox and have been cursing M$ bloat.

Just done a bare metal and the 2 hour install just reduced to 10 mins.

The internet now seems to work even though Essentials says there are problems.

I am just going to get used to a working bare metal and then try a fresh install of proxmox from the ISO install.

Also I am going to drop the virtio drivers from fedora and see how things go with emulated drivers.

Give me an hour or two and I will report back.

If anybody else has Essentials or 2012 I would like to know if they are finding similar.

 

[blurrrr]

If anybody else has Essentials or 2012 I would like to know if they are finding similar.

It's been a while, but i installed WS2012 on proxmox too for testing purposes without any problems.
To avoid problems maybe you should use the e1000-driver first.

But i had much problems with the 52er virtio-driver (HDD)... i was going back to the 30er (only older one i have).

 

[StuartIanNaylor]

I am still playing with the bare metal install and maybe its WS2012E doing something different to WS2012.

I will try with Sata emulation and the Intel e1000 Nic.

Lol, I only wanted to show what a great solution Proxmox would be with two servers and two nodes.

Best laid plans of mice and men... squeak.

 

[StuartIanNaylor]

Apols for not being quicker the bare metal install has me ordering a new cisco router and I got a tad bogged down.

I have just installed a vanilla PVE ISO and used the IDE and realtek drivers and apart from virtualisation its speedy seems like bare metal.

I think probably the virtio drivers and maybe its virtio + debian software RAID5 + WS2012E ? Dunno.
Maybe it was my Proxmox build on a debian install ?

I am going to install again with virtio drivers and see how things go.

[EDIT]
Seen your reply Tom and yeah same here everything flying?!

Only thing is now the software raid setup on my debian install of proxmox.

Also my network woes have disappeared which I think might be down to BT rather than anything hardware or OS level.

I will do another Proxmox install only thing I did which I don't normally do is run a desktop (gnome with network manager removed)

To be honest I am scratching my head.

 

[tom]

just installed it here with latest virtio, no issues so far.