Blairwin Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 I'm trying to setup a ubuntu desktop VM but I'm getting an issue where it freezes after a couple minutes. I haven't even been able to finish installation because it freezes before I can install. I'm running Bionic Beaver. I looked at other solutions and nothing I've found has solved my issue so far. I've changed cpu pinning, made sure I have bios setting correct. I attached my diagnostics and XML file for my VM. Any ideas on what might be the issue? bernard-diagnostics-20200111-1443.zip ubuntudesktop.txt Quote Link to comment
Blairwin Posted January 16, 2020 Author Share Posted January 16, 2020 Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 A few things to try: 1) UEFI boot mode. Use OVMF instead of SeaBIOS. See if that makes a difference. 2) Try i440fx (instead of q35). 3) Try setting the CPU to emulated instead of host-passthrough. If none of those work, let us know and I can try to recreate the issue on our end. Quote Link to comment
Blairwin Posted January 18, 2020 Author Share Posted January 18, 2020 11 hours ago, jonp said: A few things to try: 1) UEFI boot mode. Use OVMF instead of SeaBIOS. See if that makes a difference. 2) Try i440fx (instead of q35). 3) Try setting the CPU to emulated instead of host-passthrough. If none of those work, let us know and I can try to recreate the issue on our end. I just tried them all but no luck: I have it setup with SeaBIOS, it wouldn't even launch if I had it set to OVMF. No iteration of i440fx would work, all of them gave me this error. I updated it with emulation but it still didn't work. Froze after a couple minutes after launch. Quote Link to comment
scorcho99 Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 I find switching to i440fx from q35 the pci structure doesn't automatically fix itself up. In practice its easier for me to create a whole new VM than try to fix the xml. Quote Link to comment
testdasi Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 On 1/18/2020 at 1:28 AM, Blairwin said: I just tried them all but no luck: I have it setup with SeaBIOS, it wouldn't even launch if I had it set to OVMF. No iteration of i440fx would work, all of them gave me this error. I updated it with emulation but it still didn't work. Froze after a couple minutes after launch. When changing BIOS and machine type, ALWAYS start a new template. Quote Link to comment
Blairwin Posted January 24, 2020 Author Share Posted January 24, 2020 (edited) On 1/23/2020 at 7:50 AM, testdasi said: When changing BIOS and machine type, ALWAYS start a new template. Thanks for the tip I didn't know I had to do that with the machine type as well. I started a new template, changed machine type to i440fx v4.2 and I'm still getting the same issue. Still getting random freezing. Edited January 26, 2020 by Blairwin Quote Link to comment
Blairwin Posted February 1, 2020 Author Share Posted February 1, 2020 Any other suggestions on what I can try? Quote Link to comment
Blairwin Posted April 12, 2020 Author Share Posted April 12, 2020 Still having this issue and having no luck trying to fix it. There's a ton of cpu activity, but still nothing happens. I was able to get past the installer but it still came up with an error. Ubuntu desktop giving me a ton of headaches. Quote Link to comment
LoicB Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 Hi, FYI, i have the same problem Quote Link to comment
DannyG Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 I was having this problem, but it's fixed now. trying to install Ubuntu with Q35, OVMF.. All I did was recreated a new VM but with i440fx-4.2 instead of Q35 and it no longer freezes during the setup. I wish Unraid was a little more descriptive on what all those machine type are.. Quote Link to comment
Blairwin Posted December 25, 2020 Author Share Posted December 25, 2020 I started up a Ubuntu VM today and it's working now. Using 18.04.03 Desktop. The only setting I changed was switching Machine to i440fx-4.2. I thought I did this before and it didn't work so I'm not sure why it's working now but it is. Quote Link to comment
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