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    ProxmoxVE 2.3 - LiveCD stops after boot menue

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      Nachtfalke
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      Hi,

      I am using Proxmox VE 2.3 on a Fujitsu TX120 S3 with Intel Xeon processor, 4GB RAM and 500GB SATA RAID1.
      I installed ProxmoxVE without any problems and I tried to install the latest pfsense 2.0.3 release and pfsense 2.1 amd64 snapshot (LiveCD .iso).

      The VM starts up but after the boot menu it stops. No matter if I use "Without ACPI" oder something else. What I can do I can use option 7 for the command shell.

      On another server hardware with ProxmoxVE pfsense installs so it seems to be a problem with the hardware.
      Any ideas where to look or what to change ?

      Thank your for your help!

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        Nachtfalke
        last edited by

        Could this be the fix ?
        https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/58897b8cc200def6192345a3fe3058fb7ebc9cb5

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          Nachtfalke
          last edited by

          Hi again,

          unfortunately I still get the same error with April-29 snapshot.

          Any idea what to change or test ?

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            Nachtfalke
            last edited by

            Looks like I found the problem.

            I must disable "KVM Hardware Virtualization" on ProxmoxVE. I thought that the Intel Xeon E1220v2 can do all the Virtualization tecniques but it looks like it does not.

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              Nachtfalke
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              Unfortunately it's again me…

              I did some further tests - I installed Windows Server 2008R2 x64 on the same hardware as a VM. On this machine I can use "KVM Hardware Virtualization" enabled. Windows installs without problems. Further I can use the VirtIO drivers for NIC, HDD and ballooning.

              On pfsense 2.1 I modified the /boot/loader.conf.local like described here in the wiki:
              http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/VirtIO_Driver_Support

              When running the following commands I get the same output as described on the wiki:

              • kldstat

              • df -h

              • swapinfo

              So the modules seems to be running, ballooning seems to work and the HDD driver seems to work. Even if the if_vtnet.ko is loaded I cannot use my NICs as VirtIO. If I revert back to E1000 on proxmox it is working. (Remember, on the same Proxmox Server I can use VirtIO for NICs on Windows).

              I followed the same pfsense doc instructions on another ProxmoxVM with different server hardware and all worked.

              So my questions are:
              Did I something wrong or could it be that FreeBSD 8.3 does not support the new server hardware I use and so some things like VirtIO for NICs is not supported ? Or is it something with Proxmox?

              I appreciate any help or hint :-)

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