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    Windows VM and VMID Awareness

    Good day all, Apologies if this has been asked before but multiple web searches have not provided an answer. I have a need to be able to quickly spawn a linked clone with a specific VMID. When the clone boots into windows for the first time I want a powershell script to query its VMID...
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    2 disks, dual boot with Windows 10 and other OSes

    Hello, first of all I'm new to the Proxmox world and I already know dual boot is possible... I'm just trying ask your help to come up with a strategy for the following scenario (that I am designing to execute in the near future): 1. Disk 1: 240 (or 480, not sure yet) GB SSD, Proxmox VE 5.4...
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    Windows VM fails to shutdown from Proxmox web

    I can turn-off a Windows Server VM, but shutdown simply does not work. The agent is installed, so what is happening? The VM is Windows Server 2019. Any ideas?
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    Windows transfers

    Hello, I have noticed that after transfering files from one physical Pc with windows to virtual machine with windows via RDP connection the machine hangs and is losing connection (the virtual one) also uploading or downloading something via browser is having troubles and loses the connection :(...
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    Windows Server als File-Server-VM sehr langsam

    Ich habe folgendes Problem mit meiner Windows-Server-VM und hatte gehofft, dass man mir hier vielleicht helfen könne: Ein Speedtest der Festplatten-Geschwindigkeit in der Windows-Server-VM zeigt mir sehr schnelle R/W Speeds an. Wenn ich dies jedoch mit einer anderen VM teste und auf das...
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    Windows VMs stop on RDP or local console

    Hello Everybody, I have some serious problems regarding some Windows VMs (Server 2016 and 2012r2), which are stopping without any reason or trace to any log (either /var/log/syslog or (after vm reboot within Windows Eventviewer)). The Server 2016 is running as MS AD DC, the 2012R2 Server is...
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    Which hardware and setup is good for VDI / decent graphic performance?

    Hi, I'm thinking about using Proxmox for a SOHO VDI setup. So no Citrix/VMWare Horizon/WhatSoEver but just a hand full (~10) plain Windows VMs accessed via Windows RDP or maybe SPICE and this also only via LAN (and the office in question even has 10GbE fiber laid out). The requirement for this...
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    Basic IO benchmarks between zfs/lvm-thin/qcow2

    Just ran these the other week, thought I'd share. I'll try to do some more proper ones on Linux, but before that happens here's some CrystalDiskMark ones on Windows 2019 (virtio-scsi). The underlying storage is a single Samsung 850 PRO SSD. I was pleasantly surprised by the QCOW2 performance...
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    (Beginner) Windows explorer and Proxmox

    Good morning. Sorry for my bad english. I have a linux server with Proxmox installed with 4 virtual servers and workstations with XP windows 7 8 and 10 I can only view one server in resource management. I can visualize with putty inserting the IP the content in terminal format. I would like to...
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    Provisioning windows VMs

    Hi, I've succesfully built some nice Windows templates, but depending on role I want to install and preconfigure some software on each linked clone during first run. Typically people use Vagrant and packer for this - any idea what is the simplest way to do this without polluting my proxmox...
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    Change Hard Disk model in Windows guest

    Hello everyone! I try to run some software, that detect virtual machine environment and stop running. I change 31bit for CPU mask, now Windows Task manager can't detect VM environment Also I add BIOS vender information, now via this commands I can see actial Computer information I try to...
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    Connection not working [Hetzner]

    I have a dedicated server from Hetzner with proxmox 4, my main server Ip is 46.4.90.241 and I have an additional ip (46.4.90.232) I want to use this additional ip on a windows VM, use this ip to connect to my windows VM through RDP etc My network device configuration is...
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    Windows VM with Oracle DB and backups

    Hello, i am wondering if anyone here is running a windows VM with oracle DB. My question is whether the snapshots that can be done with proxmox/qemu-agent are working when using oracle db. I see that qema-agent supports guest-fsfreeze on windows which should work with oracle and not cause...
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    Restarting Windows VM causes boot loop

    Hi, I am using Proxmox VE 5.2-1 and installed a Windows Server 2016 VM. Everything works fine except restarting the VM i.e. after a Windows update. If the VM is restartet it keeps rebooting at the very beginning of the boot proces - just after finding the harddisk. The same happens if I select...
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    Migrate Windows from Hyper-V to PVE

    Hi, I'm trying to migrate Windows Server 2016 from Hyper-V to Proxmox. I copy the vhdx disk file, convert it to qcow2/raw but when I try to boot it doesn't work. Guest can't find bootable hard disk. When I boot Win2k16 DVD and add virtio scsi driver I can see expected Windows partition scheme...
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    QEMU guest agent run command in Windows Guest issue

    Hello everyone! I got Windows Server 2016 guest OS with installed qemu guest agent. Screenshots here: https://gyazo.com/6c9c4f6030d3a7843552f072e34f29fc https://gyazo.com/b08ea8140edfb3f1b5cf3626e224c4c4 I try to run some commands inside guest os via QEMU guest agent. For example, if I...
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    ISA Device Support in QEMU-KVM machines

    Hello everyone, I have asked around everywhere and googled to infinity, along with testing for the past hour or so. Is it not possible to add ISA devices such as the Soundblaster 16 into a virtual machine? My virtual machines only seem to accept PCI devices such as -device es1370 The command...
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    Looking for a little guidance w/ trunkey fileserver and plex, and trunkey and win 10 sharing

    Hello! My setup is Proxmox 5.2-1 with 2 CT’s, an Ubuntu CT to run plex and a CT running Turnkey fileserver. I am also looking for some assistance setting connecting the shares in the fileserver to a VM running windows 10. I’m new the Proxmox so any help is appreciated. Thank you.
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    Windows 10, anybody has done it?

    I need to virtualize several dozen Windows 10 Pro boxes, does anybody know if the Virtio drivers do work and also how does the memory sharing works? I need to show 16G RAM per box, but naturally, I want to use only what is needed so I may overcommit.
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    Disable hotplug network function not working in Windows VM

    Hi there, we're using Proxmox VE since some years right now. Lately we need to disable hotplug network card functionality from Windows Guests VM because users, sometimes click in the wrong place and they do "safely remove hardware for network card"!!!! We're using the latest virtio-win driver...

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