Windows import from ESXi 6.7 to XCP-ng 8.2 (XOA 5.99.1)

olivierlambert

Hi,

Do you have HVM enabled on the host?

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Danp

@nullstream-0 Those are the VM settings. Olivier was inquiring about the XCP-ng host and whether HVM was enabled in the BIOS. Check the host's Advanced tab in XO --

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@Danp ah... my apologies.. both are enabled. i have a bunch of existing vm's built on this host, just the vmware imports have been the trouble.

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In BIOS, Dell R630.
-- Virtualization Enabled
-- SRV-IO Global Enabled
-- X2Apic Enabled

I gather 'virtualization enabled' encompasses IOMMU.
I have a number of BSD and Linux vms on the system as well as a couple Windows Server VMs built directly on the host (ie. not imported).

Just having issues with the vm's I'm pulling from the ESXi host (note the VMs were off prior to import and I removed all snapshots and uninstalled the vmware tools on the VMs before attempting the import as noted in the docs.

Danp

@nullstream-0 Show us the VM Limits section from the VM's Advanced tab in XOA.

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Absolutely

Danp

@nullstream-0 Try changing the value for static maximum so that it matches the dynamic value, and then the VM should boot.

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Looks that that did the trick.

What was the clue that lead you there, as the error message is pretty inscrutable.

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@nullstream-0 of course this stares me in the face...

https://xcp-ng.org/docs/guests.html#vm

Which then leaves the question how to enable dynamic memory...

olivierlambert

On which XOA release channel were you when you imported it? Are you up to date? I think we recently fixed the memory settings doing VMware imports.