I did some testing and it looks like dynamic scale of cpu works, but I get this
error:
2023-12-11 15:35:52,098 ERROR [c.c.v.VmWorkJobHandlerProxy]
(Work-Job-Executor-124:ctx-66fc7dd5 job-656/job-657 ctx-08b950d5)
(logid:99e455c2) Invocation exception, caused by:
com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: Unable to scale vm due to
Unable to scale VM {id: "50", name: "i-6-50-VM", uuid:
"3d11e9a9-1c38-47d8-91c1-cfda96470e57", type: "User"} memory to [4194304 KiB],
CPU cores to [6] and cpu_shares to [12000] due to [error from service:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Value specified in
CPUWeight is out of range].
What I mean by it looks like it works is that the VM shows the new cpu value,
but CS runs into an error and shows the old value for cpu.
Any idea what "Value specified in CPUWeight is out of range" means?
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Nux <n...@li.nux.ro>
Gesendet: Montag, 11. Dezember 2023 12:57
An: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: m...@swen.io
Betreff: Re: AW: AW: running Windows VM on Ubuntu 22 KVM
If it is then it will certainly require the virtio drivers.
That said I always avoided doing this operation, often prone to crashes in my
experience.
On 2023-12-11 11:53, m...@swen.io wrote:
> Hi Nux,
>
> thx, virtio-win-gt-x64.msi was the missing link. Now VM-snapshot do
> work!
> What is not working at the moment is dynamically scaling cpu of a
> running VM. Is this even possible with Windows?
>
> Regards,
> Swen
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Nux <n...@li.nux.ro>
> Gesendet: Montag, 11. Dezember 2023 12:41
> An: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> Cc: m...@swen.io
> Betreff: Re: AW: running Windows VM on Ubuntu 22 KVM
>
> You can VM snapshot Windows, no issues, doesn't need any special tools.
> That said, I usually bundle virtio drivers and QEMU guest agent in
> Windows VMs.
> Basically install something like this:
> https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archi
> ve-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.240-1/virtio-win-gt-x64.msi
>
> On 2023-12-11 11:26, m...@swen.io wrote:
>> Is it possible to create VM-snapshots of Windows VMs? Do I need to
>> install other guest tools?
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Wei ZHOU <ustcweiz...@gmail.com>
>> Gesendet: Montag, 11. Dezember 2023 11:43
>> An: users@cloudstack.apache.org
>> Betreff: Re: running Windows VM on Ubuntu 22 KVM
>>
>> If the OS type is "Windows Server xxxx", the VM will be started with
>> an
>> E1000 nic device and IDE disk.
>>
>> You need to change to "Windows PV", vm will have virtio NIC and disk.
>> If you want better disk performance, you can try with "Other PV
>> Virtio-SCSI (64-bit)", which might require some changes on your
>> windows templates.
>>
>> -Wei
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 11:34, <m...@swen.io> wrote:
>>
>>> Thx, Wei, I used OS Type Windows Server 2022 (64-bit). Is this not
>>> working?
>>>
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: Wei ZHOU <ustcweiz...@gmail.com>
>>> Gesendet: Montag, 11. Dezember 2023 11:29
>>> An: users@cloudstack.apache.org
>>> Betreff: Re: running Windows VM on Ubuntu 22 KVM
>>>
>>> You can stop the vm, change the OS type to "Windows PV" and then
>>> start the vm.
>>>
>>> -Wei
>>>
>>> On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 11:17, <m...@swen.io> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I am kind of new to use KVM for Windows VMs and run into some problems.
>>> >
>>> > I used an English template for Windows Server 2022 and installed a
>>> > VM successfully via Cloudstack. Everything looks good and the NIC
>>> > is working Intel PRO 1000 emulation.
>>> >
>>> > As far as I understand you need to install the VirtIO driver to
>>> > get a better performance from your VM. I downloaded the ISO from:
>>> >
>>> > https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/s
>>> > t
>>> > a
>>> > bl
>>> > e-virt
>>> > io/virtio-win.iso
>>> > <https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/
>>> > s
>>> > t
>>> > ab
>>> > le-virtio/virtio-win.iso>
>>> >
>>> > And installed them inside the Windows Sever VM successfully. But
>>> > even after a reboot of the VM it looks like it is still using the
>>> > emulated Intel PRO
>>> > 1000 NIC and also QEMU ATA drivers for disk access.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Did I miss something? Do I need to install anything on the KVM host, too?
>>> > Performance is very poor inside the Wind VM.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Thx for any help!
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Swen
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
