ERROR: Timeout while waiting for QEMU to boot the machine!

[crookedmosquito]

Is there no existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Machine specifications

Unraid docker

Operating system

Linux 171869390d55 6.1.64-Unraid #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Nov 29 12:48:16 PST 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Docker version

Docker version 20.10.24, build 297e128

Description

Trying to get this to work on an unraid server, running on a 730xd

Docker compose

this is done in a docker container from unraid

Docker log

❯ ERROR: Timeout while waiting for QEMU to boot the machine!
❯ Extracting Windows 10 image...
❯ Adding win10x64.xml for automatic installation...
❯ Building Windows 10 image...
❯ Booting Windows...

Screenshots (optional)

No response

[kroese]

There is a unRaid community app called "WindowsinDocker". Are you using that one?

[crookedmosquito]

Yessir. That is the one I am using. When i first added it, it I got output on the VNC port showing it was downloading. when it finished downloading i got a "Display output is not active" on the VNC port and then in the Docker Logs I showed what I pasted in the initial ticket. I have tried windows 10 and windows 11 both same issue.

[kroese]

I have seen this same issue before with someone who was using a Intel Xeon (server-grade) CPU. And he happened to have multiple CPU's (not cores) in that system.

Is that also the case for you? Can you add a container variable with the key: BOOT_MODE and the value windows_secure in that case?

[crookedmosquito]

Got an error on first boot so removed container and adding it back, will update shortly.

[crookedmosquito]

getting this attaching picture

[kroese]

Can you try with a clean /storage folder? Because maybe there was a leftover from the previous attempts were it freezed.

[crookedmosquito]

That may have done it. Thanks for the assist.

[kroese]

But can you tell me if your motherboard has multiple cpu's/sockets. Because if so, then I will enable windows_secure automatically for people with multiple sockets in the next version to prevent this bug.

[crookedmosquito]

So I do have multiple cpu sockets on my system. I am seeing another issue now. It went through the install and then I got nothing on the VNC window, won't connect. Getting this in the log:

BdsDxe: loading Boot0003 "Windows Boot Manager" from HD(1,GPT,B4E11B75-E8BE-4394-98F5-FAA4FFD01B54,0x800,0x40000)/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
BdsDxe: starting Boot0003 "Windows Boot Manager" from HD(1,GPT,B4E11B75-E8BE-4394-98F5-FAA4FFD01B54,0x800,0x40000)/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
❯ Windows started succesfully, visit http://localhost:8006/ to view the screen...
❯ Shutdown completed!

I attempt to restart it, it tries to start up and then immediately shuts down

[kroese]

Can I see the full log, not only this part?

[crookedmosquito]

if I run (docker run container-name)

root@pdlstorage01:~# docker logs WindowsinDocker
❯ Starting Windows for Docker v3.10...
❯ For support visit https://github.com/dockur/windows
❯ CPU: Intel Xeon CPU E5 2698 v4 | RAM: 468/504 GB | DISK: 512 GB (btrfs) | HOST: 6.1.64-Unraid...

❯ Requesting Windows 10 from Microsoft server...
❯ ERROR: Microsoft blocked the automated download request based on your IP address.
❯ Failed to download Windows 10, will try a diferent method now...
❯ Downloading product information from Microsoft server...
❯ Downloading Windows 10...

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BdsDxe: loading Boot0003 "Windows Boot Manager" from HD(1,GPT,B4E11B75-E8BE-4394-98F5-FAA4FFD01B54,0x800,0x40000)/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
BdsDxe: starting Boot0003 "Windows Boot Manager" from HD(1,GPT,B4E11B75-E8BE-4394-98F5-FAA4FFD01B54,0x800,0x40000)/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
❯ Windows started succesfully, visit http://localhost:8006/ to view the screen...
❯ Shutdown completed!

[kroese]

@crookedmosquito I know that many people have issues running this container on the BTRFS filesystem on Unraid.

Do you happen to have any other partitions (EXT4, ZFS, XFS, etc.) that you can mount /storage on? For example /mnt/cache? Because I have a suspicion that it could be related to BTRFS.

[crookedmosquito]

Sorryit took me a minute to get back with you on this. I do have a couple of spare nvme's that are on the unassigned devices section. Let me format one to xfs and mount it. I will go ahead and do a re-install after and see what happens.

[crookedmosquito]

@crookedmosquito I know that many people have issues running this container on the BTRFS filesystem on Unraid.

Do you happen to have any other partitions (EXT4, ZFS, XFS, etc.) that you can mount /storage on? For example /mnt/cache? Because I have a suspicion that it could be related to BTRFS.

That did work. I booted it off a newly formatted device using xfs instead of btrfs. Great call out on this. I am at the screen that starts off "Hi", so think i am good.

[crookedmosquito]

booted

[kroese]

I just created a BTRFS partition on Ubuntu 24.04, and I could not reproduce this problem.

So it seems to only appear when using Unraid, maybe because of their RAID config or other specific settings that are different from Ubuntu. I added a warning now to the code, so that Unraid users who have BTRFS get notified about the issue.

But if someone reading this has some spare time and would like to help debugging this, please try if starting the container with:

environment:
  DISK_IO: "threads"
  DISK_CACHE: "writeback"

makes any difference. If it does not, remove those variables and try if setting:

environment:
  DISK_FMT: "qcow2"

or

environment:
  ALLOCATE: "Y"

or

environment:
  DISK_TYPE: "IDE"

makes any difference.

[francedot]

I just created a BTRFS partition on Ubuntu 24.04, and I could not reproduce this problem.

So it seems to only appear when using Unraid, maybe because of their RAID config or other specific settings that are different from Ubuntu. I added a warning now to the code, so that Unraid users who have BTRFS get notified about the issue.

But if someone reading this has some spare time and would like to help debugging this, please try if starting the container with:

environment:
  DISK_IO: "threads"
  DISK_CACHE: "writeback"

makes any difference. If it does not, remove those variables and try if setting:

environment:
  DISK_FMT: "qcow2"

or

environment:
  ALLOCATE: "Y"

or

environment:
  DISK_TYPE: "IDE"

makes any difference.

None of these options does the job unfortunately.. Running on Docker WSL 2 on Windows on an Azure VM.