Re: ProxMox/KVM Serial terminal via ssh/telnet - WAS: OpenVMS x86 and qemu/kvm - boot problems.

On 6/6/2024 9:42 PM, Michael Brown wrote:

On 29/5/24 06:40, John H. Reinhardt wrote:

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I've got a ProxMox V8.2.2 instance running now.  It boots the OpenVMS V9.2-2 ISO .......

Is there a secret to getting the network device working under proxmox ?
I used e1000 as the device model but during bootup it sends the cpu usage up to 100% and just freezes. Using other device models some will seemingly fail immediately and the bootup goes ahead but you end up with openvms running but with no network device available.
 Have you seen anything like this happening before.

Go back to using the e1000 device.  After you create the VM, but before you boot it, edit the VM config file /etc/pve/qemu-server/<vid>.conf
Add "args: -machine hpet=off" if it's not already there.  If it wasn't there, then that should fix the problem.
This is my current test config file:
pve011:/etc/pve/qemu-server# cat 100.conf
args: -machine hpet=off
balloon: 0
bios: ovmf
boot: order=ide2;sata0;sata1;net0
cores: 2
cpu: host
efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-0,efitype=4m,size=4M
ide2: local:iso/X860922OE.ISO,media=cdrom,size=1517408K
machine: q35
memory: 8192
meta: creation-qemu=8.1.5,ctime=1717891692
name: openvms-test
net0: e1000=BC:24:11:A5:FB:1A,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1,tag=16
net1: e1000=BC:24:11:0D:4F:69,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
net2: e1000=BC:24:11:0C:52:86,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1,tag=20
numa: 0
ostype: other
sata0: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-2,discard=on,size=16G,ssd=1
sata1: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-1,discard=on,size=16G,ssd=1
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
serial0: socket
smbios1: uuid=1fa8bf23-cff3-4746-91cb-d9fed4ea99c5
sockets: 1
vmgenid: ce4c0615-9dc0-46e5-8f5c-5a4eca5b7647
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John H. Reinhardt