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    OS Type Windows and hv-tlbflush

    Hi. Is there a file inside proxmox that I can edit and, when the OS type is Windows, it will automatically add hv-tlbflush to the processor?
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    Qemu guest agent

    Can anyone suggest information about the compatibility of the guest agent with different versions of Windows and versions of the host system, faced with the problem that after transferring the virtual machine from proxmox 5 with Windows server 2012 to the newly installed proxmox 8.2.7, the guest...
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    SSD Not Recognized After Installation

    I installed Proxmos on my notebook, but after the installation my SSD with my bootable Windows was no longer recognized, I can no longer reinstall/recover Windows because my SSD is no longer recognized and unfortunately there were important files on the operating system . Any ideas?
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    [SOLVED] UEFI Boot Display suddenly not initializing (yet?)

    Hello all! I'm having a bear of an issue trying to figure out why my windows server VM suddenly went offline. For context, I'd been having a BlueScreening issue as a result of using iSCSI, in an attempt to fix it my colleague unchecked the 'Use LUNs Directly' option (since we run 3 or 4 VMs off...
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    Move Windows VM with TPM State disk

    Hello, I have one two node cluster with both local zfspool both in proxmox ve 8.2.4. I have one VM with 1 vDisk on a zfspool and one TPM state disk on local. When I try to migrate it to the second node, there is an error : ERROR: storage migration for 'local:107/vm-107-disk-0.raw' to storage...
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    Why EFI Windows VM sometimes gets stuck at boot?

    Hello everyone, I've been noticing that sometimes, my Windows VM's with an EFI boot on Proxmox sometimes fail to fully boot/load. When that happens, they always get stuck on this exact same screen: This happens on different Proxmox nodes (not clustered) with different versions of Windows...
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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...