I have a single physical server in my test setup and I am experimenting with virtualization.
The Hyper V Host is Server 2012 R2 Standard. Currently it is running in the Essentials Role plus also running Flex Raid with 7 physical hard drives.
I am attempting to set this up correctly by making the host only function in the Hyper V Role and shift the Essentials role to a virtual machine and move Flex Raid to another virtual machine. I am running into a roadblock with the 2nd step (the Flex Raid virtual machine).
I successfully created the virtual machine, installed Server 2012 R2. It runs fine with no errors. I then took the physical hard drives offline and tried to attach them to the virtual machine. When I tried to boot it up the VM begins to start, it then crashes and restarts 7 times, and then finally crashes. I get a 7 identical critical alerts that says
'VM was reset because an unrecoverable error occurred on a virtual processor that caused a triple fault. If the problem persists, contact Product Support. (Virtual machine ID )
I have 7 physical hard drives that I added, so it appears that there is 1 alert for each physical drive.
If I remove the physical drives, the VM starts back up without a problem.
I then tried to add a single physical hard drive and then tried to start the VM. The crash and reboot sequence I saw previously returned, but it did it only once and I only received one of the critical alerts (again matching the number of physical drives).
Unfortunately the error message is not the most helpful so I'm not even sure where to turn next. Does anyone have a clue?
If it matters, the 7 physical drives are SATA drives, connected through an IBM M1015 SAS Controller. Is this possibly a compatibility issue? Or do I need to pass through the controller to to the Virtual Machine. I looked through the settings but nothing jumped out at me to do this.