[SOLVED] Windows VM unable to boot

natharas

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Hi, I've got a Windows VM that was working without issues last night but today I noticed a few services weren't working so I investigated and found the Windows VM was powered off. When I attempt to power it on it goes straight to Recovery for Windows 10.

Upon further investigation the disks are on local-LVM and that disk appears to be almost full. It contains 4 VM disks for VM 103 (Windows VM). I thought okay, well what if I migrate the VM to a different storage that has ample space but it returns the same result of going straight to Windows Recovery.

This is the current config of the VM:
Code:
qm config 103
agent: 1
balloon: 0
bios: ovmf
boot: order=scsi0;ide2;net0;sata0
cores: 4
cpu: host
efidisk0: VM:103/vm-103-disk-0.raw,efitype=4m,pre-enrolled-keys=1,size=4M
hostpci0: 0000:0a:00,pcie=1
ide2: none,media=cdrom
machine: pc-q35-7.0
memory: 16444
meta: creation-qemu=7.0.0,ctime=1663328708
name: BlueIris
net0: e1000=D2:3F:71:96:3A:E8,bridge=vmbr1,firewall=1
net1: e1000=22:77:17:97:6C:56,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1,link_down=1
numa: 1
onboot: 1
ostype: win10
sata0: VM:iso/virtio-win.iso,media=cdrom,size=519030K
scsi0: VM:103/vm-103-disk-1.raw,cache=writeback,size=80G,ssd=1
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=9f94566b-1922-472e-968f-19b23d8256d5
sockets: 2
startup: order=3,up=420
vga: std
vmgenid: f1070eb2-afb5-41d9-a1d2-b763bc89e9f0

How can I delete the VM disks that are on LVM-Disk to make more space?
What happens if I remove the older vm-103-disk-1, date on it is from last week when it was in a working state?
If I have a backup from last night prior to the issue, what is the best process to attempt a restore, do I restore to a new VM or attempt to restore to VM 103?
I did have a snapshot but it appears that is now gone, is that because I've already tried a restore?
I do also appear to have some backups from earlier this year on a Synology NAS, they look like this would they be usable and if so how?

If all else fails, I guess I'll have to do a fresh build of the VM from scratch.
 

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