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    Snapshot Simple Feature Request.

    I use snapshots for default configurations of guests testing software. Therefore I often make changes and need to roll back. It would be very useful if the current state of the guest ie "You are here" also included the date the guest was last shutdown or snapshot date if rolled back. At the...
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    Windows Guest qcow2 rollback very slow

    It seems if you snapshot with a mounted CD ROM it causes the delay. I removed the cd from hardware with option do not use media took another snapshot and rollback is now 1m 5s. :)
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    Windows Guest qcow2 rollback very slow

    I have vanilla clean win 10 guest i use for test installs of our application ie I roll back and forth frequently when testing configurations. Storage is sata ssd ext4 qcow2. The roll back takes 20+ mins when there have been minimal changes. Our install is 200mb at most. Rollback for a mac guest...
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    [TUTORIAL] Using NGINX as Reverse Proxy Externally

    FYI. I use Opnsense in a vm. You get a firewall and It comes with nginx, spam, ddclient and lets encrypt plugins. Setup al via gui so very straightforward to organise routing and proxy pass.
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    Windows 11 guest - performance benchmarks?

    I am on 7.0.11 and it runs perfectly. I have mix on windows 10, win server 2016 and 2012, linux server and Mac Catalina. The MAc and Win guests use passthrough for usb and GPU. All runs 14 hours a day stops and starts on schedule. It was running 24/7 with no problems now saving energy. Wary of...
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    Windows 11 guest - performance benchmarks?

    I agree. That is what I have kvm is the usb keyboard switch not the virtual machine :)
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    Windows 11 guest - performance benchmarks?

    Thanks for the replies. I accept that the Crystal is not accurate but it's a big difference. The guest is my virtualised desktop which I migrated from hardware. The server is running a variety of development environments guests with grapics passthrough and I am switching between guests using a...
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    Windows 11 guest - performance benchmarks?

    I dont see anywhere near your what you have. Does the zfs mirror vs nvme qcow2 make that much difference ?
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    Migrated Windows Server 2012R2 VM from Hyper-V to Proxmox does not boot

    I have moved many windows guests from hyper V to proxmox. I use the Starwind converter which is a free download to convert the VHD file to QCOW. In proxmox create a new virtual machine with sata drive and empty disk. Then replace the default qcow drive with the hyper v with same name via sftp...
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    [SOLVED] Easiest GPU for PCIe passthrough

    I use GT 730 ddr5 version no problems. I pass through two of them.
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    [SOLVED] LSI Megaraid Storage Manager

    You are trying to install the wrong packages. You do not need the entire storage manager software. You need the CLI MegaCli-8.07.14-1.noarch.rpm You do not run the storage mananger app on the proxmox server just the CLI. You need a Windows machine and install the client on that. It then...
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    USB Pass through device list empty

    Thanks for confirming. I dont need to unbind just understand best way to passthrough the ports.
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    USB Pass through device list empty

    Thanks for reply. I thought that so I removed all passthrough of PCI from all guests and rebooted server. I then get the correct list from lsusb. So does this mean that if you passthrough a pci on one machine which is off you cannot passthrough the port to a different machine ? I assumed that if...
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    USB Pass through device list empty

    Running lsusb does not show any devices only the hub? root@rx300s7-1-pve:~# lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub similar to this problem...
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    How to boot Server, into Monterey?

    You can use promox as your desktop machine for any vm it doesnt matter win/mac/linux. You need 2 video cards and a KVM. Then passthrough one video card to the VM the other is for the host. You then use the kvm to switch between the two. Aslo need to pass through the usb ports to the 2 sets of...
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    USB Pass through device list empty

    Hello, PVE 7.0.11 I can passthrough a USB hub as pci and all is ok. Howerver If I try and passthrough a usb device by port or vendor id the drop down list in pve is empty. Anyone seen this. I am trying to split the ports between two Vm's Thanks Paul
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    Power Consumption passed through GPU when VM is Off

    Thanks for the tip. I will check the power state. Paul
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    Restore Failures

    I had this error. Verified the backup which renamed the blocks as bad. Ran another backup. Verified ok. Restore OK. Thanks.
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    Power Consumption passed through GPU when VM is Off

    I have passed through a graphics card for virtual machine I use rarely. Mainly for for testing so it's generally off. However I have noticed the graphic card heatsink is warm so using a bit of power. Is there any way this can be disabled ? Thanks Paul
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    Questions about where doing the installation of Nginx:

    Install opnsense as a vm and this is the firewall to the public iP. Opnsense has a nginx add on which is perfect to route to other vm's. Works great. Paul