Try driverctl instead of kernel parameters and blacklists.
I found this package when I needed to pass through one of two identical HBA devices which I wasn't able to do with parameters.
It seems to bind the chosen driver via udev when it's...
I had the same DMA issue passing through NIC cards.
Here is how I fixed it.
The boot log from kernel 6.17.4-1-pve shows recurring DMAR faults (e.g., [DMA Read NO_PASID] Request device [02:00.0] fault addr 0x5464000 [fault reason 0x0c] non-zero...
If you set the CPU type to x86-64-v3, Windows recognizes that it is a VM.
Because of that, some CPU mitigations are not active.
If you set it to host, Windows does recognize that it is a VM.
Because of that, some CPU mitigations are active...
There is a lengthy discussion of what is happening at https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/1j2zrol/the_reasons_for_poor_performance_of_windows_when/ And there also is a blog post at...
Drive Size no longer reports 0!!!!!
after the failure of unbuntu17.x and while waiting for windoz to download i started reviewing the output of smartctl and saw this...
Logical block size: 520 bytes
that fired a neuron that had been...