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[chris crude]

My Ubuntu VM wont boot after recent internal updates to it. My FreeNas is up to date with stable, not upgraded to beta. I have read that latest Linux updates doesnt like older FreeNas, Beta should fix it. Anyone have experience or verification of this?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Rusty!]

I've stopped my Ubuntu VM booting a few times when updating it. Just requires a tweak to the location of the EFI boot file.

 

[trevorb]

Check in /var/log/middlewared.log to see if it has an error:
VMService.__init_guest_vmemory():830 - ===> Cannot guarantee memory for guest id: 1

It appears to be an issue with 11.2beta1, but is closed in the Bug reports.......

 

[dlavigne]

Check in /var/log/middlewared.log to see if it has an error:
VMService.__init_guest_vmemory():830 - ===> Cannot guarantee memory for guest id: 1

It appears to be an issue with 11.2beta1, but is closed in the Bug reports.......

Ticket number?

 

[trevorb]

Ticket number?

https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/34330
https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/28157

 

[dlavigne]

Looks like it was fixed for BETA2 in the duplicate issue for 34330: https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/26434.

BETA2 will be available tomorrow. Please let us know if that did not resolve the issue.

 

[trevorb]

Looks like it was fixed for BETA2 in the duplicate issue for 34330:

That looks like it just displays a descriptive message and doesn't fix the underlying problem.
Happy to test over the weekend.

 

[chris crude]

OK, i was on vacation and didnt go into enough detail.

Mobo= Supermicro X11SSM-F-O
CPU= Xeon E3-1240v5
10Gbps= Intel E10G42BTDA Server Adapter X520-DA1
RAM= 2xSamsung M391A2K43BB1-CPB 16GB DDR4-2133 ECC Un-Buffer LP Server Memory
HDD= 5x3TB WD Red ZFS1 pool
SSD= 50GB boot drive, 2x250GB VM mirror

Had Ubuntu VM running for a year, didnt manually change locaton of boot file, used the boot repair .iso to fix it for me.
Recent Ubuntu updates killed my boot, nothing to do with changes in FreeNas
I read a few threads here about how the latest Linux kernals didnt play nice with FreeNas VM, BETA should fix it.
if I update to BETA, will my VM magically start working? Will i need to re-install the VM?. Should I fix my current situation? Update then fix?
Thanks in advance.

 

[KrisBee]

@chris crude Personally, I wouldn't update to the 11.2 Beta at the moment. There's a thread somewhere which shows how a non-booting Ubuntu VM after a kernel update was fixed to run in FN 11.1-U5. In basic terms you want to boot the previous working kernel.

 

[trevorb]

Happy to test over the weekend.

I remoted in and updated to Beta2 and rebooted whilst away (couldn't wait).
Checking today and all is well. VM still running, bad plugin installs (using later release than base version - different issue) all running. Dashboard quicker and IMHO much nicer (other UI components appear quicker as well).
Happy camper so far!
PS. My VM is Ubuntu 16.04 server