Proxmox will automatically configure /etc/network/interfaces inside the container based on what you configure for the LXC in the GUI or in the LXC config file. If you then set it to something else inside the LXC this will be overridden by Proxmox...
Its also possible to:
A.) kill the "Starting all guests" task so it will only try to start the first VM and skip all the other ones
B.) temporarily set something really high for the node-wide start delay at "YourNode -> System -> Options -> Start...
is over WAN ?
PBS must be fast, because changed data in VM is blocked because need to be written to first to PBS.
There is "Fleecing" option on the PVE side to mitigate this.
@Falk R. made an "install.bat" script which use the devcon.exe Microsoft utility to create the phantom/fake scsi controller.
This allow booting directly in PVE with Virtio SCSI disk.
Just tried today.
Download the virtio win mod drivers ISO ...
Hello,
I get often asked by customers how to install the virto
drivers before the migration in a way that they can be
immediatly be used with virtio scsi single devices without
an intermediary boot using an ide drive and an empy virtio
scsi...
Hi,
It's a matter of activating virtio drivers at boot time. First you need to install virtio drivers on the virtual machine. Second of all you need to activate them so they load at boot time.
You can do it 2 ways - one is to add a temporary...
Nutanix runs on QEMU. There is no graphic acceleration.
iirc, they have already done some work for Intel CPU :
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/high-vm-exit-and-host-cpu-usage-on-idle-with-windows-server-2025.163564/post-842026
as always "it depends"
here, for VMs with MSSQL, DBs ~2G, I only rely on Proxmox Backup Server as MSSQL VSS writer ensures consistency. Hookscript not required.
For some VMs, DATA and DBs backups are done within guest, only system vdisk is backup...
keep it for Windows guests, as snapshot is done within guest, like Windows Backup or Veeam done the job.
Disabling is not recommended, because in-use files like databases can't be consistent, except if you shutdown databases engine and close...