Windows 7 Hangs at "Starting Windows"

wsln0734 said:
Hi Jens,

Yes so I created the EFI disk from the command line as directed but accounting for my disk designation, and then I tried from the GUI both result in the same Starting Windows.
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Weird. It was working for me that way.
 
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wsln0734 said:
Hi Jens,

Yes so I created the EFI disk from the command line as directed but accounting for my disk designation, and then I tried from the GUI both result in the same Starting Windows.
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Heya Jens,

I just did it again, and re-entered the command you provided and it worked. I think the last time I tried from the command line I for some reason provided the extra arguments to wit:
qm set 101 --efidisk0 WDSCSI0_1POOL:vm-101-disk-2,efitype=4m,size=4M

But I just booted with the newly created disk and it seems to be working!

Thank you!
 
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Well, it's back to freezing up at starting windows again. After running a sfc /scannow and then scheduling a chkdsk /f /x C:, I went to terminal into the VM via RDP this morning , and it timed out. So I went to the Proxmox console of that VM and found that the Starting Windows dots were stuck as before. I'm not sure why but for whatever reason it's back to it's old tricks even after re-creating the efi disk.1745415987438.png
 
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I just wanted to report that the machine is now working. I decided to see if it would start yesterday and it did. I'm not sure what may have fixed it unfortunately buy my reported version of pve-qemu server is:

pve-qemu-kvm/stable,now 9.2.0-5

Thanks all for the help.
 
Ive migrated a Win7 to a PVE8 cluster and after a lot of fiddling it did boot correctly with an EFI disk.
Yesterday Ive migrated another Win7 to a new PVE9 cluster and this VM just wont start with an EFI disk. Did something change in PVE9 or is the source VM broken beyond repair?

This is the current (working) version. It boots but PVE shows a warning:
Code: 
agent: 1,fstrim_cloned_disks=1
bios: ovmf
boot: order=scsi0;sata0
cores: 8
cpu: EPYC-Genoa
machine: pc-i440fx-10.0+pve1
memory: 8192
meta: creation-qemu=10.0.2,ctime=1758613195
name: rip-ctp-3
net0: virtio=00:50:56:97:77:1f,bridge=vmbr2
onboot: 1
ostype: win7
sata0: images:iso/virtio-win-0.1.285.iso,media=cdrom,size=771138K
scsi0: replicated:vm-132-disk-1,aio=native,discard=on,iothread=1,size=476809M,ssd=1
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=4217f458-d9bc-3696-ca74-d6b660c193cc
sockets: 1
tags: win7
vmgenid: 0466c767-fd5c-4013-86e6-33669ce3cf2c
 
As described here in this thread just create your EFI disk in an old format.
J

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Remove the EFI disk and try to start your Windows 7 VM.
You'll get warning about the missing EFI but Windows will boot again.
Is it working that way for you, then you have to create a new EFI disk with this command:
Code: 
qm set <VMID> --efidisk0 <Storage>:0
(of course with the correct ID and storage) and you're good again.
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