As the title suggests I'm having some issues migrating several Windows Guests (2012 R2 and 2016) from XenServer 7 to Proxmox 4.3. All my attempts have the same issue. A normal boot fails just after the windows logo appears with a blue screen saying "Your PC ran into problems and needs to restart", reboots, does the same thing again then boots into automatic repair. Windows 2016 is slightly different as I get a similar blue screen but provides me the error "System thread exception not handled" I've been migrating the VM's by exporting a snapshot to a .xva file, unarchiving export and using xenmigrate script to produce a .raw format. I have attempted to resolve this issue by performing the following operations:
- Attached boot drive as IDE, SATA, and VirtIO.
- Removed/uninstalled ghost devices
- Scanned with system file checker (SFC /Scannow)
- Rebuild boot record using bootrec
- Removed previous guest additions ( Done before and after VM migration )
- Tried a "Clean Boot"
- Changed VM's SCSI Controller type.
I'm starting to run out of ideas of what to try. For what it's worth, I believe the issue is caused by a driver or lack there of, due to the fact that safe mode loads without an issue. While in safe mode I've tried to install VirtIO guest drivers but I receive a "data is invlaid" error with every attempt. I've performed this with and without MsiServer running and even tried it with a different virtio iso. Linux guests work without a hitch, but I have noticed upon first boot they do repair something very quickly before stating "/dev/sda clean" and loading console login prompt.
Server Stats:
3 node cluster with cepth each with:
- Dual Intel Xeon CPU E5-2620
- 128GB DDR4 ECC unbuffered RAM
- 60GB SSD - OS
- 6 400GB Intel DC S3710 SSDs - Ceph OSDs
I know that this has been mentioned numerous times, but I haven't yet found anything that works. I apologize if I've overlooked a previously discussed solution.
Thanks
- Attached boot drive as IDE, SATA, and VirtIO.
- Removed/uninstalled ghost devices
- Scanned with system file checker (SFC /Scannow)
- Rebuild boot record using bootrec
- Removed previous guest additions ( Done before and after VM migration )
- Tried a "Clean Boot"
- Changed VM's SCSI Controller type.
I'm starting to run out of ideas of what to try. For what it's worth, I believe the issue is caused by a driver or lack there of, due to the fact that safe mode loads without an issue. While in safe mode I've tried to install VirtIO guest drivers but I receive a "data is invlaid" error with every attempt. I've performed this with and without MsiServer running and even tried it with a different virtio iso. Linux guests work without a hitch, but I have noticed upon first boot they do repair something very quickly before stating "/dev/sda clean" and loading console login prompt.
Code:
root@prox-ceph3:~# qm config 106
balloon: 0
boot: cdn
bootdisk: sata0
cores: 2
ide2: none,media=cdrom
kvm: 0
memory: 4096
name: TinyTest
net0: e1000=86:E1:D0:2B:E0:56
numa: 0
ostype: win8
sata0: workspace:106/vm-106-disk-1.raw,size=100G
smbios1: uuid=56941e5d-af0d-44ba-81d6-40d99f4bf9de
sockets: 1
Server Stats:
3 node cluster with cepth each with:
- Dual Intel Xeon CPU E5-2620
- 128GB DDR4 ECC unbuffered RAM
- 60GB SSD - OS
- 6 400GB Intel DC S3710 SSDs - Ceph OSDs
I know that this has been mentioned numerous times, but I haven't yet found anything that works. I apologize if I've overlooked a previously discussed solution.
Thanks