We have a Dell R510 with Firmware 1.12. Yes I know it needs an update.
Dual Intel Xeon 5660 with 6 sticks of 16 gig DDR3 Reg Buff dual rank 133
2 of the 3 system drives in Raidz crashed at the same time so I had to rebuild the system drive.
Decided to Try proxmox 6 and do a zpool import to find the 5 drive raid z where the Windows Server 2008 lived.
I manually recreated the Config from reviewing the data in a backup. I have successfully done this several times before. I LOVE the automatic zpool import although I usually have to -f it since it thinks it is a foreign pool! Luckily I DID NOT upgrade the zfs pool or I would have NOT had a reverse path.
Wen we start the VM, we get a Blue screen about 1/3rd of the way into loading drivers. I have tweaked the settings for the CPU and OS type including setting it to Windows Vista, etc... I made sure that the Server was all apt-get updated and dist-upgraded. I never could get the VM running under Proxmox 6.
No amount of changing CPU flags seemed to make it boot.
Here is the config:
boot: dc
bootdisk: virtio0
cores: 6
memory: 24576
name: TS03.WinSrv2008r2Ent.DC.Exchange
net1: virtio=B2:82:56:A1:89:5E,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: win7
smbios1: uuid=bec8f82f-b187-4fb1-9f39-7ce09304b686
sockets: 2
virtio0: local2:608/vm-608-disk-1.qcow2,cache=writeback,size=2000G
And YES I know qcow.. It should have been installed on the 2nd raidz zfs rpool i created with 5 drives, but instead I created a local folder on that zfs pool called local2. Not sure why we didnt go with a zfs block device, but this shouldn't be what is causing the problem. All that causes is slower performance.
I resorted to reinstalling an OLD ISO of Proxmox 4.4x and did EXACTLY the same thing and the VM does properly boot up so we are back up and running.
So has ANYONE been able to restore an image from backup OR a manual recovery such as what is above and gotten a machine that was created under Proxmox 3 or 4 to run under 5 or 6 with the Xeon 5600 series processor? Is that my issue? Could it be an old Dell Bios issue? How will I ever be able to migrate this machine ? Will I have to just abandon it and create a Windows 2012 or 2016 or later on a new Proxmox 6?
Jake Messinger
Adjunct Professor,
Bauer College of Business
University of Houston.
Dual Intel Xeon 5660 with 6 sticks of 16 gig DDR3 Reg Buff dual rank 133
2 of the 3 system drives in Raidz crashed at the same time so I had to rebuild the system drive.
Decided to Try proxmox 6 and do a zpool import to find the 5 drive raid z where the Windows Server 2008 lived.
I manually recreated the Config from reviewing the data in a backup. I have successfully done this several times before. I LOVE the automatic zpool import although I usually have to -f it since it thinks it is a foreign pool! Luckily I DID NOT upgrade the zfs pool or I would have NOT had a reverse path.
Wen we start the VM, we get a Blue screen about 1/3rd of the way into loading drivers. I have tweaked the settings for the CPU and OS type including setting it to Windows Vista, etc... I made sure that the Server was all apt-get updated and dist-upgraded. I never could get the VM running under Proxmox 6.
No amount of changing CPU flags seemed to make it boot.
Here is the config:
boot: dc
bootdisk: virtio0
cores: 6
memory: 24576
name: TS03.WinSrv2008r2Ent.DC.Exchange
net1: virtio=B2:82:56:A1:89:5E,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: win7
smbios1: uuid=bec8f82f-b187-4fb1-9f39-7ce09304b686
sockets: 2
virtio0: local2:608/vm-608-disk-1.qcow2,cache=writeback,size=2000G
And YES I know qcow.. It should have been installed on the 2nd raidz zfs rpool i created with 5 drives, but instead I created a local folder on that zfs pool called local2. Not sure why we didnt go with a zfs block device, but this shouldn't be what is causing the problem. All that causes is slower performance.
I resorted to reinstalling an OLD ISO of Proxmox 4.4x and did EXACTLY the same thing and the VM does properly boot up so we are back up and running.
So has ANYONE been able to restore an image from backup OR a manual recovery such as what is above and gotten a machine that was created under Proxmox 3 or 4 to run under 5 or 6 with the Xeon 5600 series processor? Is that my issue? Could it be an old Dell Bios issue? How will I ever be able to migrate this machine ? Will I have to just abandon it and create a Windows 2012 or 2016 or later on a new Proxmox 6?
Jake Messinger
Adjunct Professor,
Bauer College of Business
University of Houston.