Palo Alto VM wont boot

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Fight_Doctor
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Palo Alto VM wont boot

Post by Fight_Doctor » Wed Jul 09, 2025 4:34 pm

My setup has the following specifications:
Dell PowerEdge R630
16 CPUs x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz
127.91 GB
ESXi-6.7.0-8169922-standard
EVE-NG ver 6.2
16 vCPUs
64GB
Installed the following Palo Alto images to my EVE-NG setup:

PA-VM-KVM-9.0.4.qcow2
PA-VM-KVM-11.0.0.qcow2

When adding a Palo Alto node to a project, I get the following error when trying to boot the PA node:
Booting 'PANOS (maint)'

root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda2 init=/sbin/init_maint console=ttyS0,9600
n8 console=tty0 quiet alternate_root=/dev/vda2 alternate_root=/dev/xvda2 altern
ate_root=/dev/nvme0n1p2

Error 2: Bad file or directory type

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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