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    GPU Pass-through to Win-VM - Driver not loading

    Dear Community, I recently purchased a server to run some basic things in my home network. One thing on my bucket list was moving Plex Media Server from the NAS to a VM with more power. I installed ProxMox VE 8.2.2, running on ZFS RAID1 1TB NVMe SSDs. Hardware: AMD X570, Ryzen AM4 5950x, 64GB of...
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    How Do I Transfer/Import QCOW2 From Windows To Proxmox

    Hey all, Very new to Proxmox so apologies for reaching out. I have a qcow2 I wish to transfer over from Windows to Proxmox on a Micro PC. I'm unable to FTP/Sctp into the host with authentication errors for both. I have checked the time zone is correct. I've given up on a network transfer so...
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    cannot connect to web UI from windows

    Hello, I have been using my proxmox installation for about a year, but every time I make networking changes on the proxmox machine, my windows machine cannot access the web UI. ## My network - 192.168.5.0/24 - gateway/router, physical device pfsense, 192.168.5.1 - client machine, physical...
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    Client Zugriff auf Proxmox VM (Windows und Linux)

    Hallo, wenn ich unter Proxmox eine Windows VM installiere kann ich ganz normal per Remotedesktop darauf zugreifen. Wie funktioniert das mit Linux? Gerne auch Links und kein vorkauen. Ich mache das nur um zu üben und mehr zu verstehen.
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    Windows Machines not seeing UUID

    i have a bunch of windows machiens on PVE 8 that i suddenly realize don't see their UUID, even though proxmox did assign them one in the options>bios. this is preventing certain software from functioning. is there additional config i need to do for the machines to see the uuid? additional...
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    Windows server 2022 poor random read and write performance

    Hello, I am looking for a way to improve the performance of random reads and writes on a virtual machine with windows server 2022. VM configuration: agent: 1 boot: order=virtio0;ide2;net0;ide0 cores: 6 cpu: qemu64 machine: pc-i440fx-9.0 memory: 16384 meta: creation-qemu=9.0.0,ctime=1724249118...
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    Slow Windows 11 Performance

    Hi there, I've been searching for a week and can't find the answer. Why is my Windows 11 VM so slow?? I'm simply testing the UI via RDP between several machines (2x VMs and 2x bare metal computers). The 2x bare metal computers are snappy and HIGHLY responsive. The 2x VMs struggle just...
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    No Gui & SSH access via Wireguard on Fritzbox

    Hey, iam fresh in Proxmox coming from ESXI, installation runs well und the frist VM ist running. Today i try to connect from my Workspace to Proxmox using my Wireguard VPN on Fritzbox. I can ping the ip via cmd tool from Windows. Other Network devices working via browser and ssh. if i open...
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    virtual network between server and vm

    hi, I'm really a noob here so excuse me if this is some really easy stuff but I cant figure it out. I've got a vm with my gpu, wifi and usb cards passed, so I use it as a desktop. my ethernet port isn't passed to anything cuz that's how I connect promos to my network. I want to unplug it, but...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox vs Openstack (kvm) slow performance for Windows Server 2022

    Greetings community! What's wrong with Proxmox for Windows systems? Recently migrated some hosts from Windows server 2012r2 to 2022 and performance it's so bad. Best practices from Proxmox Wiki etc. applied ! Test Environment: Dell PowerEdge R620 CPU: E5-2667 v2 3.3Ghz Base RAM: DDR3 -...
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    Windows RDP connection stability issue

    Hi everyone: I am new to Proxmox and started to create Windows 11 VMs on my new Proxmox 8.2 installation. Most of the things are running fine except that the RDP connection to the virtualized Windows 11 instance is reset sporadically. Sometimes this happens 2-3 times per hour, sometimes it's...
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    TASK ERROR: timeout waiting on systemd

    Hi, dear, I recently faced a big problem in a Proxmox 8 cluster. It all started when a Windows VM wouldn't start and displayed the following error in the task log: TASK ERROR: timeout waiting on systemd In some research on Proxmox forums, some reported that restarting the host solved the...
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    balloon failed in windows server 2025

    Hi, everyone. I am using windows server 2025(like windows 11) as as VM in PVE. I installed virtio-win-gt-x64 and wirtio-win-guest-tools. But the balloon still dont work. I have 512G memory in host and set "16G min, 128G max and balloon on" to VM. The VM always use 128G after start. I type "info...
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    Windows VM Trimming

    Hey Guys, I have scoured through the forum to try and answer my question with no success... I have 3 PM nodes running windows VM's with the storage being ZFS backed, with thin provision enabled. I noticed the 1 ZFS array reporting 17TB used, but in the VM there's 20TB storage assigned, but...
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    What to do with my old ZFS zpool of Steam Games [Changing Old Windows PC into Proxmox]

    Hello, I am in the middle of trying out Proxmox for the first time. My old PC used to be Windows 10 which had 4 Hard Drives running as a Zpool, accessed by Windows. It was a pain to get ZFS to work for me using OpenZFSOnWindows, but it worked. The Zpool stored a large quantity of games from...
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    Problems with WS 2019

    Hi I am importing a vm from vmwre into proxmox, the import ends correctly but when I turn on the vm (windows) it goes directly to automatic windows repair and does not allow booting Maybe you know if something is missing or I'm omitting something?
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    Issue of Global connectivity of Windows using RDP

    I installed Proxmocx on one of my hardware and created 2 windows VM's using its web interface, now i want to make them available for global connectivity using RDP but i am not able to figureout IP/port with which i can connect that VM , any solution or tutorial for it ?
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    Windows VM memory shows up as DDR3

    I have installed Windows 11 on my Proxmox server (PVE version 8.1.4) and using q35 machine (version 8.1). I have DDR5 RAM installed on my physical machine. And the RAM sticks do show up as DDR5 on Proxmox host. I am also passing through Nvidia GPU to Windows VM which passes through perfectly...
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    VM full clone - vmhd korrupt?

    Hallo Zusammen Ich erstelle auf Proxmox ein Windows 11 Sysprep image. Danach erstelle ich ein Full Clone der Maschiene im ausgeschalteten Zustand. Beim starten der geklonten Maschine erhalte ich oft ein Bluescreen: DRIVER PNP WATCHDOG Dieser resultiert in den Sysprep logs zu folgendem: Error...
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    Passthrough issues with nvidia + XP VM

    Hi there, Running into an issue with a build I am setting up, specifically passing through a GPU through to a XP VM being used offline, for retro gaming. The GPU does get recognized correctly inside the VM, but fails to start with an Error code 10. I've gone through the forum and tried several...

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