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    • planedropP Offline
      planedrop Top contributor @Mefosheez
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      @Mefosheez Hmmm lets double check all the advanced settings then, if this doesn't do it the might be worth checking the logs.

      I'll give a reference point for an Ubuntu VM I have running, this is on an AMD Threadripper 1920X for what it's worth.

      CPU Mask: none
      CPU Weight: Default
      CPU Cap: Default
      Citrix PV drivers: disabled
      HA: disabled
      Affinity: none
      GPUs: none
      NIC: Realtek RTL8139
      VGA: enabled
      Video RAM: 8 MiB (might be worth bumping this to 16MiB to test, IIRC I had some VMs dislike 8MiB, don't recall the specifics)
      Boot Firmware: UEFI
      Secure Boot: enabled (probably leave disabled for now)
      Viridian: disabled
      CPU Limits: 4/4
      Topology: Default
      Memory is 2GiB

      No VUSBs and no PCIs attached. Misc is all left default.

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      • MefosheezM Offline
        Mefosheez @planedrop
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        @planedrop confimred. I am running a similar (more resources) config on the ubuntu desktop VM.

        I have not found any useful logs along the way with this. is there something more detailed in the in the cli?

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        • planedropP Offline
          planedrop Top contributor @Mefosheez
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          @Mefosheez Hmmm ok, yeah I would check a few of the logs on XCP-ng itself. https://docs.xcp-ng.org/troubleshooting/log-files/

          Also, has this host been rebooted fairly recently?

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          • MefosheezM Offline
            Mefosheez @planedrop
            last edited by Mefosheez

            @planedrop notworking-uefi-new.txt working-bios-exisitng.txt

            yes i bounced the other day for testing purposes. no different results.

            attached is a tail on daemon.log

            this, is it enforcing something it should not?

            Dec 9 12:13:32 xcp-r630 varstored-17[1574285]: initialize_settings: Secure boot enable: false
            Dec 9 12:13:32 xcp-r630 varstored-17[1574285]: initialize_settings: Authenticated variables: enforcing

            and this, are the interesting bits. does it not see available memory?

            Dec 9 12:13:33 xcp-r630 qemu-dm-17[1574330]: Detected Xen version 4.17
            Dec 9 12:13:44 xcp-r630 qemu-dm-17[1574330]: AllocatePages failed: No 0x10400 Pages is available.
            Dec 9 12:13:44 xcp-r630 qemu-dm-17[1574330]: There is only left 0x3929 pages memory resource to be allocated.
            Dec 9 12:13:44 xcp-r630 qemu-dm-17[1574330]: ERROR: Out of aligned pages
            Dec 9 12:13:44 xcp-r630 qemu-dm-17[1574330]: ASSERT /builddir/build/BUILD/edk2-20220801/MdeModulePkg/Core/DxeIplPeim/X64/VirtualMemory.c(814): BigPageAddress != 0

            Thanks for the assist.

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            • olivierlambertO Offline
              olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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              Those error messages doesn't look good. Any idea @TeddyAstie ?

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              • TeddyAstieT Offline
                TeddyAstie Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team Xen Guru @Mefosheez
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                @Mefosheez Looks like a OVMF bug to me (issue with PML5e ?).

                What CPU are you using ?

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                • MefosheezM Offline
                  Mefosheez @TeddyAstie
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                  @TeddyAstie intel e5-2680
                  Screenshot 2024-12-10 at 8.03.07 AM.png

                  If it is useful for troubleshooting I have a different host in the pool with an i7-3770 I could try and deploy this on.

                  Thanks.

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                  • TeddyAstieT Offline
                    TeddyAstie Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team Xen Guru @Mefosheez
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                    @Mefosheez So it is not concerned with (potential) PML5e issues.

                    Have you tried rebooting the host ?

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                    • planedropP Offline
                      planedrop Top contributor @Mefosheez
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                      @Mefosheez I would try it on that other host you have and see if you run into the same issues, just for good measure.

                      Are they managed by the same XO? Maybe you can just migrate it to the other host so it's the exact same VM.

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                      • MefosheezM Offline
                        Mefosheez @TeddyAstie
                        last edited by

                        @TeddyAstie I did a reboot but not change.

                        @planedrop They are and I will do it this afternoon.

                        Thanks.

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                        • MefosheezM Offline
                          Mefosheez @planedrop
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                          @planedrop I found a sec to do this now. the host works as expected, the log is attached for boot. newhost-working.txt

                          So the the page allocation errors on the other host (lower level than I get normally) look to be uefi and qemu related. and the PML5e (found a white paper on it) seems to correlate as well. @TeddyAstie is there a reason you feel it is no longer relevant based on this chipset (e5-2680 v3)?

                          Thanks!

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                            Mefosheez @Mefosheez
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                            @Mefosheez said in UEFI guests not loading console:

                            @planedrop I found a sec to do this now. the host works as expected, the log is attached for boot. newhost-working.txt

                            So the the page allocation errors on the other host (lower level than I get normally) look to be uefi and qemu related. and the PML5e (found a white paper on it) seems to correlate as well. @TeddyAstie is there a reason you feel it is no longer relevant based on this chipset (e5-2680 v3)?

                            Thanks!

                            wanted to add that the initial migration failed with a "network required" error when moving from pool-wide eth3 to pool-wide eth0. I removed the existing vif (eth3), ran migrate, and then created a new vif (eth0)

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                            • MefosheezM Offline
                              Mefosheez @TeddyAstie
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                              @TeddyAstie Wanted to follow up and see if you had any insight on this pages error? I can confirm on a different host the VM will boot, I migrated it (live) back to the original host and it worked fine also, until I restarted it and then it failed the same way on boot up. same errors. thanks.

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                                Greg_E @Mefosheez
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                                @Mefosheez

                                The only experience that I have is Server 2025 Eval with an older Xeon, vtpm, vsecure boot, vuefi and no problems with default configuration using win2022 template and turning on the above mentioned settings.

                                The only real difference is that I always uncheck automatic boot during creation, go into advanced and change the Intel NIC, save and then initial boot.

                                I mention that all of the settings are virtual because my old servers do not support hardware uefi or hardware tpm 2.0 so all of that must be synthetic for my lab.

                                I'm also using up to date XCP 8.3 with this VM.

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                                  Mefosheez @Greg_E
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                                  @Greg_E thanks for the feedback. I am stuck on this one. is either host or chipset specific and I don't have another e5-2680 v3 to test with. found another post on here around the same time frame that has this same error on boot. hope its not a broader issue.

                                  https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/10075/imported-vm-starts-but-does-not-initialize-the-display

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