From 9260319e7411ff8281700a532caa436f40120ec4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Krinitsin Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 16:52:07 +0200 Subject: gitlab scraper: download in toml and text format --- .../target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/2204 | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+) create mode 100644 gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/2204 (limited to 'gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/2204') diff --git a/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/2204 b/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/2204 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f66253dd8 --- /dev/null +++ b/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/2204 @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +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: + +![Screenshot_from_2024-03-02_21-15-10](/uploads/9e172b941d160d2538cf903c1249e9d8/Screenshot_from_2024-03-02_21-15-10.png) + +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: ![Screenshot_from_2024-03-02_21-36-37](/uploads/d3bc3ac142096e0ef6fc25e91c299ebc/Screenshot_from_2024-03-02_21-36-37.png) + +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 -- cgit 1.4.1