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diff --git a/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/2204 b/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/2204 deleted file mode 100644 index f66253dd8..000000000 --- a/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/2204 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ -Hyper-V on Windows Server 2022 cannot load images converted from OVA to VHDX by qemu-img: Boot failure. Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device -Description of problem: -We have reference OVA image: https://storage.googleapis.com/fastnetmon_advanced_vm_images/fastnetmon-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-2.0.360.0.ova and we want to convert it to VMDX format. -Steps to reproduce: -I downloaded reference OVA and converted it to VMDX with three possible options. - -With subformat dynamic: -``` -qemu-img convert fastnetmon-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-2.0.360.0.ova -O vhdx -o subformat=dynamic fastnetmon-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-2.0.360.0.vhdx -``` - -And without it: -``` -qemu-img convert fastnetmon-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-2.0.360.0.ova -O vhdx fastnetmon-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-2.0.360.0.vhdx -``` - -And with explicitly setting fixed: -``` -qemu-img convert fastnetmon-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-2.0.360.0.ova -O vhdx -o subformat=fixed fastnetmon-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-2.0.360.0.vhdx -``` - -In all cases I tried loading images using VM of Generation 1 and Generation 2: -``` -The application encountered an error while attempting to change the state of -'New Virtual Machine'. - -'New Virtual Machine' failed to start. - -Microsoft Emulated IDE Controller (Instance ID 83F8638B-8DCA-4152-9EDA-2CA8B33039B4): Failed to Power on with Error 'The requested operation could not be completed due to a virtual disk system limitation. Virtual hard disk files must be uncompressed and unencrypted and must not be sparse.. - -Failed to open attachment 'C:\Program Files\qemu\fastnetmon_non_dynamic.hdx''. Error: 'The requested operation could not be completed due to a virtual disk system limitation. Virtual hard disk files must be uncompressed and unencrypted and must not be sparse.. - -Failed to open attachment 'C:\Program Files\qemu\fastnetmon_non_dynamic.vhdx'. Error: 'The requested operation could not be completed due to a virtual disk system limitation. Virtual hard disk files must be uncompressed and unencrypted and must not be sparse.'. -``` - -I noticed some similarities with https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/136 and applied workaround to fix it: -``` -fsutil sparse setflag fastnetmon-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-2.0.360.0.vhdx 0 -``` - -It started complaining that file is being used by another app. I waited long enough and then rebooted server. - -After that error changed to: -``` -Boot failure. Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device_ -``` - -As image: - - - -For Generation 2 error is slightly different: -``` -Virtual Machine Boot Summary -1. SCSI Disk -(0,0) -The boot loader did not load an operating system. -2. Network Adapter (00155D01770C) -A boot image was not found. -``` - -As image:  - -I tried doing conversion from VirtualBox with same OVA and it worked just fine: -``` -VBoxManage clonehd fastnetmon-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-disk1.vmdk fastnetmon.vhd --format vhd -``` - -I believe something is wrong with boot records for VMDX images. - -Example of converted VHDX with dynamic flag can be found here: https://storage.googleapis.com/fastnetmon_advanced_vm_images/fastnetmon-ubuntu-22.04-amd64-2.0.356.0.vhdx - -By Pavel Odintsov at FastNetMon.com |