BIOS PC's not booting
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Hi,
We are using XCP-ng for a few months now.
I created a few of PC's booting with BIOS. They don't alwas run so now I needed one of those PC's and tried to boot it. It fails with this error :INVALID_VALUE(platform:device-model, BIOS boot is not supported with qemu-upstream-uefi)AFAIK no settings were changed on this PC.
I tried to create a PC from scratch, also booting via BIOS, that also fails with the same message.
Any pointers to what could be wrong ?
UEFI PC's boot fine.
XCP-ng is 8.1.TIA
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Can you show us the VM object:
xe vm-param-list uuid=<VM UUID> -
@koenraadl
had the same issue today. try to change uefi to bios or reverse. -
@olivierlambert
Sorry, I couldn't access the host from home (covid).uuid ( RO) : e1edceb7-6601-260a-cb8a-4f72a5d6b5cd name-label ( RW): Windows 10 Secr Legacy name-description ( RW): user-version ( RW): 1 is-a-template ( RW): false is-default-template ( RW): false is-a-snapshot ( RO): false snapshot-of ( RO): <not in database> snapshots ( RO): snapshot-time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z snapshot-info ( RO): parent ( RO): <not in database> children ( RO): is-control-domain ( RO): false power-state ( RO): halted memory-actual ( RO): 4297056256 memory-target ( RO): 0 memory-overhead ( RO): 37748736 memory-static-max ( RW): 4294967296 memory-dynamic-max ( RW): 4294967296 memory-dynamic-min ( RW): 2147483648 memory-static-min ( RW): 2147483648 suspend-VDI-uuid ( RW): <not in database> suspend-SR-uuid ( RW): 0a4fb46c-84ac-6fa9-899f-76d48fec4e99 VCPUs-params (MRW): weight: 256 VCPUs-max ( RW): 2 VCPUs-at-startup ( RW): 2 actions-after-shutdown ( RW): Destroy actions-after-reboot ( RW): Restart actions-after-crash ( RW): Restart console-uuids (SRO): hvm ( RO): false platform (MRW): timeoffset: 0; device-model: qemu-upstream-uefi; videoram: 8; hpet: true; acpi_laptop_slate: 1; secureboot: false; viridian_apic_assist: true; apic: true; device_id: 0002; cores-per-socket: 2; viridian_crash_ctl: true; pae: true; vga: std; nx: true; viridian_time_ref_count: true; viridian_stimer: true; viridian: true; acpi: 1; viridian_reference_tsc: true allowed-operations (SRO): changing_NVRAM; changing_dynamic_range; changing_shadow_memory; changing_static_range; make_into_template; migrate_send; destroy; export; start_on; start; clone; copy; snapshot current-operations (SRO): blocked-operations (MRW): allowed-VBD-devices (SRO): 1; 2; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31; 32; 33; 34; 35; 36; 37; 38; 39; 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48; 49; 50; 51; 52; 53; 54; 55; 56; 57; 58; 59; 60; 61; 62; 63; 64; 65; 66; 67; 68; 69; 70; 71; 72; 73; 74; 75; 76; 77; 78; 79; 80; 81; 82; 83; 84; 85; 86; 87; 88; 89; 90; 91; 92; 93; 94; 95; 96; 97; 98; 99; 100; 101; 102; 103; 104; 105; 106; 107; 108; 109; 110; 111; 112; 113; 114; 115; 116; 117; 118; 119; 120; 121; 122; 123; 124; 125; 126; 127; 128; 129; 130; 131; 132; 133; 134; 135; 136; 137; 138; 139; 140; 141; 142; 143; 144; 145; 146; 147; 148; 149; 150; 151; 152; 153; 154; 155; 156; 157; 158; 159; 160; 161; 162; 163; 164; 165; 166; 167; 168; 169; 170; 171; 172; 173; 174; 175; 176; 177; 178; 179; 180; 181; 182; 183; 184; 185; 186; 187; 188; 189; 190; 191; 192; 193; 194; 195; 196; 197; 198; 199; 200; 201; 202; 203; 204; 205; 206; 207; 208; 209; 210; 211; 212; 213; 214; 215; 216; 217; 218; 219; 220; 221; 222; 223; 224; 225; 226; 227; 228; 229; 230; 231; 232; 233; 234; 235; 236; 237; 238; 239; 240; 241; 242; 243; 244; 245; 246; 247; 248; 249; 250; 251; 252; 253; 254 allowed-VIF-devices (SRO): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6 possible-hosts ( RO): 4ad49ce6-3f67-4242-a758-59bdfad614cc domain-type ( RW): hvm current-domain-type ( RO): unspecified HVM-boot-policy ( RW): BIOS order HVM-boot-params (MRW): order: dc; firmware: bios HVM-shadow-multiplier ( RW): 1.000 PV-kernel ( RW): PV-ramdisk ( RW): PV-args ( RW): PV-legacy-args ( RW): PV-bootloader ( RW): PV-bootloader-args ( RW): last-boot-CPU-flags ( RO): vendor: GenuineIntel; features: 1fcbfbff-97ba2223-2d93fbff-00000403-00000001-00000000-00000000-00000000-00001000-9c000400-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000 last-boot-record ( RO): '' resident-on ( RO): 4ad49ce6-3f67-4242-a758-59bdfad614cc affinity ( RW): 4ad49ce6-3f67-4242-a758-59bdfad614cc other-config (MRW): base_template_name: Windows 10 (64-bit); import_task: OpaqueRef:67e54772-7ce7-43e4-8002-a6eaf7b2a892; mac_seed: 01536947-ff8e-478c-1403-12f7007439a0; install-methods: cdrom; auto_poweron: false dom-id ( RO): -1 recommendations ( RO): <restrictions><restriction field="memory-static-max" max="1649267441664"/><restriction field="vcpus-min" min="2"/><restriction field="vcpus-max" max="32"/><restriction field="has-vendor-device" value="true"/><restriction field="supports-bios" value="yes"/><restriction field="supports-uefi" value="yes"/><restriction field="supports-secure-boot" value="yes"/><restriction max="255" property="number-of-vbds"/><restriction max="7" property="number-of-vifs"/></restrictions> xenstore-data (MRW): vm-data: ; vm-data/mmio-hole-size: 268435456 ha-always-run ( RW) [DEPRECATED]: false ha-restart-priority ( RW): blobs ( RO): start-time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z install-time ( RO): 20201119T13:11:11Z VCPUs-number ( RO): 0 VCPUs-utilisation (MRO): os-version (MRO): <not in database> PV-drivers-version (MRO): <not in database> PV-drivers-up-to-date ( RO) [DEPRECATED]: <not in database> memory (MRO): <not in database> disks (MRO): <not in database> VBDs (SRO): ff9259f0-45d7-f4ab-43bc-e1f097c437b8; bedc1d56-5239-e4b7-9310-82cdac36183a networks (MRO): <not in database> PV-drivers-detected ( RO): <not in database> other (MRO): <not in database> live ( RO): <not in database> guest-metrics-last-updated ( RO): <not in database> can-use-hotplug-vbd ( RO): <not in database> can-use-hotplug-vif ( RO): <not in database> cooperative ( RO) [DEPRECATED]: true tags (SRW): appliance ( RW): <not in database> snapshot-schedule ( RW): <not in database> is-vmss-snapshot ( RO): false start-delay ( RW): 0 shutdown-delay ( RW): 0 order ( RW): 0 version ( RO): 0 generation-id ( RO): 5864515912681412571:4738613654386700915 hardware-platform-version ( RO): 2 has-vendor-device ( RW): true requires-reboot ( RO): false reference-label ( RO): windows-10-64bit bios-strings (MRO): bios-vendor: Xen; bios-version: ; system-manufacturer: Xen; system-product-name: HVM domU; system-version: ; system-serial-number: ; baseboard-manufacturer: ; baseboard-product-name: ; baseboard-version: ; baseboard-serial-number: ; baseboard-asset-tag: ; baseboard-location-in-chassis: ; enclosure-asset-tag: ; hp-rombios: ; oem-1: Xen; oem-2: MS_VM_CERT/SHA1/bdbeb6e0a816d43fa6d3fe8aaef04c2bad9d3e3d -
@alexanderk
Can you elaborate on what I need to do ?
I tried to change from BIOS to UEFIand booted the machine. It booted to the UEFI shell. Then I had trouble to stop the VM, so I could revert back to BIOS.
Now it's back to BIOS but the problem remains. -
The issue is there:
platformrecord gotdevice-model: qemu-upstream-uefi;but it shouldn't. -
@olivierlambert How do I change that ?
I tried with both Orchestra-versions (App en OS) and with XC_ng center.
With Orchestra I can change the video-ram (checked with xe vm-param-list) but I can't change the device-model. I set it to default, bios and uefi, the output of xe vm-param-list always stays at qemu-upstream-uefi.
XCP-ng center has no means of modifying the boot-mode.TIA
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You need to do that with
xe:xe vm-param-set uuid=e1edceb7-6601-260a-cb8a-4f72a5d6b5cd platform:device-model=qemu-upstream-compat -
@olivierlambert
Thanks for the info.
Unfortunately, it seems I lost the harddrive : no bootable device.
I had a second "legacy" machine, with the same problem.
To test I created a 32bit Windows 10 machine. There device-model=qemu-upstream-compat. -
@olivierlambert
Strange, that 32bit windows was from the 32bit Windows 10 template.
I installed Windows10 but it seems I installed the 64bit.
