Network Disconnection Windows 11 VM

Nikolai_Arman

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I am new here and not sure if I am posting this in the right forum, however after hours of research I cannot seem to find any useful information. I have a Windows 11 VM with everything installed and setup following a guide for GPU pass-through, I also have a few other devices passed through. I have parsec installed and I use this to connect to the VM for gaming (I got rid of my windows machine because I only use Windows for gaming). After about 5-6 minutes of use the VM with disconnect from the network and I can not figure out if it is an issue with Parsec or an issue with Proxmox. The logs on Parsec do not show that the application is having issue. I do not have an issue with Parsec installed on a thin client and remotely accessing it outside of my network or inside of the network. I do not experience these issues with any Linux VM I have setup either it is strictly with Windows VM's I have this issue. I have screenshots attached of my VM configuration file, one showing the VM is running, and another showing that the VM is not connected to my home network.
 

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[UPDATE]

I reinstalled Proxmox and then built a new Windows 11 VM I made a separate Linux Bridge using my secondary Aquantia 10GB NIC in case the primary bridge was causing problems. I continued to have "network disconnects" however I did find out what the problem was I believe and it was an issue with Windows BSOD with the error DXGKRNL_FATAL_ERROR. After some research and reading the documentation from Proxmox I found out some of the flags people post in their guides arent needed and that a lot of those guides miss the one flag to fix these issues (echo "options kvm ignore_msrs=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf) with stress tests such as 3D mark. I also had issues with the Thunderbolt Add-in Card causing kernel errors and the Proxmox host trying to take control of it. I removed that card corrected the flags and ran typical SFC and DISM to clean the Windows Image and have not had an issue since.

I highly recommend if anyone else has problems with the same kernel error in a Windows VM to ditch the guides and follow the documentation from Proxmox directly as that seems a lot more accurate.
 

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