I had the job to covert 3 old physical NT4 Servers into Proxmox VMs cause theay are running a native production software only available under nt4.
Two of them are running stable now and I am very happy with it.
The third one is even running most of time, but has an issue on heavy disk I/O. After starting a log checker, a statistic tool or something else (like chkdsk) which produces heavy load on the disk, the vm freezes.
Booting, restarting and copying of a few small files results in no problems, copying of big amounts of files or big files results in freezing.
The only status messages I can see is Status: io-error on the Proxmox web interface summary screen.
The both well running vms are having only one disk each of 4 GB size (running atapi.sys driver).
The third struggling vm has 3 three disks also running via atapi.sys. The first (bootdisk) has a size of 4GB, the second has a size of 26GB and the third one has a size of 5 GB.
The proxmox 2.2 configuration consits of a two node cluster with drbd. There are several vm's running stable (differents linuxes als well as w2k3 and w2k - and newly three NT4)
I am using:
here is the config of the vm:
I know, NT4 is very old and there isn't much experience in the world anymore, but I hope that some of you guys are having a hint for me where I can find something to get it running.
Two of them are running stable now and I am very happy with it.
The third one is even running most of time, but has an issue on heavy disk I/O. After starting a log checker, a statistic tool or something else (like chkdsk) which produces heavy load on the disk, the vm freezes.
Booting, restarting and copying of a few small files results in no problems, copying of big amounts of files or big files results in freezing.
The only status messages I can see is Status: io-error on the Proxmox web interface summary screen.
The both well running vms are having only one disk each of 4 GB size (running atapi.sys driver).
The third struggling vm has 3 three disks also running via atapi.sys. The first (bootdisk) has a size of 4GB, the second has a size of 26GB and the third one has a size of 5 GB.
The proxmox 2.2 configuration consits of a two node cluster with drbd. There are several vm's running stable (differents linuxes als well as w2k3 and w2k - and newly three NT4)
I am using:
Code:
pveversion -v
pve-manager: 2.2-32 (pve-manager/2.2/3089a616)
running kernel: 2.6.32-17-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 2.2-83
pve-kernel-2.6.32-17-pve: 2.6.32-83
pve-kernel-2.6.32-7-pve: 2.6.32-60
lvm2: 2.02.95-1pve2
clvm: 2.02.95-1pve2
corosync-pve: 1.4.4-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-2
libqb: 0.10.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.1.93-2
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-3
fence-agents-pve: 3.1.9-1
pve-cluster: 1.0-34
qemu-server: 2.0-72
pve-firmware: 1.0-21
libpve-common-perl: 1.0-41
libpve-access-control: 1.0-25
libpve-storage-perl: 2.0-36
vncterm: 1.0-3
vzctl: 4.0-1pve2
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.1-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 1.3-10
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1here is the config of the vm:
Code:
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cpi: 0
boot: cd
bootdisk: ide0
cores: 1
cpu: qemu64,level=1
ide0: drbdvg:vm-106-disk-1,size=4G
ide1: drbdvg:vm-106-disk-2,size=28G
ide2: none,media=cdrom,size=641978K
ide3: drbdvg:vm-106-disk-3,size=5G
kvm: 0
memory: 1024
name: delphin-nt4
net0: ne2k_pci=0E:25:35:9B:F9:3C,bridge=vmbr0
ostype: w2k
sockets: 1
vga: std