Windows KVM Guests

[mwixon]

Hi -

I'm well on my way with proxmox and things are generally running great. I virtualized a Win 2003 server and that went well. I have a few general questions though if anyone can help me out.

1) The java VNC console seems very unstable, at least for me. I can always connect, but the mouse freezes and the screen stops updating after a very short time, like usually less than a minute. I can reconnect fine and then it will work for another minute or so. Any ideas?

Is there a way to use an alternative VNC viewer? It seems like a problem with the client.


2) The 2003 server I'm virtualizing has some licensed software on it and I need to set the mac on the nic to get past that. This is all legal, I'm just moving a server from physical to virtual. I edited the conf file to set the mac, however it seems that only the rtlk driver will take the mac. If i use virtio or e1000 it ignores the mac setting. Here is the line from my conf file:
vlan0: rtl8139=00:14:38:XX:XX:2E ** WORKS **
vlan0: e1000=00:14:38:XX:XX:2E ** Does not take the MAC **


Thanks for any ideas you may have!

-Mike

 

[tom]

Hi -

I'm well on my way with proxmox and things are generally running great. I virtualized a Win 2003 server and that went well. I have a few general questions though if anyone can help me out.

1) The java VNC console seems very unstable, at least for me. I can always connect, but the mouse freezes and the screen stops updating after a very short time, like usually less than a minute. I can reconnect fine and then it will work for another minute or so. Any ideas?

what guest OS/browser/java plugin do use? the console for windows is quite stable. pls also post your config file (of the VM) - see /etc/qemu-server/VMID.conf.

Is there a way to use an alternative VNC viewer? It seems like a problem with the client.

pls search the forum, there are workaround.
also the upcoming Proxmox VE will include a newer VNC console, maybe better also on your side.

2) The 2003 server I'm virtualizing has some licensed software on it and I need to set the mac on the nic to get past that. This is all legal, I'm just moving a server from physical to virtual. I edited the conf file to set the mac, however it seems that only the rtlk driver will take the mac. If i use virtio or e1000 it ignores the mac setting. Here is the line from my conf file:
vlan0: rtl8139=00:14:38:XX:XX:2E ** WORKS **
vlan0: e1000=00:14:38:XX:XX:2E ** Does not take the MAC **


Thanks for any ideas you may have!

-Mike

you should use e1000 with the latest driver from the Intel web site. specifying the mac should work - make sure you power off and start the VM if you change any config - a simple reboot does not take it.

But also the intel driver inside windows allows you to specify a custom MAC, maybe this is the fastest way. (I just tested with driver: intel 1000 mt - 8.10.3.0 on win 2003-64)

 

[mwixon]

Tom -

Thanks for the quick reply. Here is my conf file, I tried setting the MAC in windows and while it works, it doesn't solve my licensing problem. You'll see below that it is a vanilla config file. If I change the rtl8139 to e1000, then the mac doesn't take. I did do a power down of the machine. The MAC usually show up as YY:YY:FF:FF:FF:FF - it's all FF at the end of the mac.

As for the VNC problems, they are not critical for me. I can use remote desktop. It may have something to due with the fact that I have logmein running on that machine for remote access / maintenence.




name: thinkcc
ide2: NETKVM-20081229.iso,media=cdrom
smp: 2
bootdisk: ide0
ostype: w2k3
memory: 2048
onboot: 1
ide0: vm-101-disk.qcow2
boot: cad
freeze: 0
cpuunits: 2000
acpi: 1
kvm: 1
vlan0: rtl8139=00:14:38:XX:XX:XX

 

[tom]

Tom -

Thanks for the quick reply. Here is my conf file, I tried setting the MAC in windows and while it works, it doesn't solve my licensing problem. You'll see below that it is a vanilla config file. If I change the rtl8139 to e1000, then the mac doesn't take. I did do a power down of the machine. The MAC usually show up as YY:YY:FF:FF:FF:FF - it's all FF at the end of the mac.

As for the VNC problems, they are not critical for me. I can use remote desktop. It may have something to due with the fact that I have logmein running on that machine for remote access / maintenence.




name: thinkcc
ide2: NETKVM-20081229.iso,media=cdrom
smp: 2
bootdisk: ide0
ostype: w2k3
memory: 2048
onboot: 1
ide0: vm-101-disk.qcow2
boot: cad
freeze: 0
cpuunits: 2000
acpi: 1
kvm: 1
vlan0: rtl8139=00:14:38:XX:XX:XX

I am out of ideas as this works here and on other sites. maybe you hit a MAC address restriction? just a guess. is the other machine with the same MAC powered off?