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    Can't reboot on my Windows

    I have installed proxmox on my usb driver After the installation, i went to my bios to choose my windows on my boot order to be able to go back and try my proxmox But when i try to go to my windows boot, i have a big blue screen with "boot option restoration" and when i dont touch anything, the...
  2. bbgeek17

    [TUTORIAL] Deep dive into Storage Controllers, Compatibility, and Efficiency Metrics with Windows on Proxmox

    Hey everyone, Given the recent developments with VMware/Broadcom, we've noticed a surge in inquiries related to running Windows on Proxmox. To assist those transitioning away from VMware, we've thoroughly examined Windows Server 2022 storage controller compatibility, native driver support...
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    [TUTORIAL] Windows VM Performance and Softlocking in Nintendo Switch Emulation - fixed with +invtsc

    This is an issue that I've actually already solved, but because it took me so much time and effort to isolate the cause, I wanted to document the problem in a few places so that if anyone else experiences a similar issue it can hopefully save them a lot of stress. Among other things, my Proxmox...
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    When I start my windows and linux vms at the same time I get corruption

    Hi!, I am not really sure it's data corruption but it just seems like it. So, I have 2 vms that have separate GPUs assigned to them. When I start both of them, the one vm freezes for a bit and then it starts working again, but after I turn off the pc and boot it up again I get fsck on the screen...
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    Windows 11 VM Doesn't Cleanly Shut Down

    Hello all, My Hardware: Proxmox 8.1.3 Motherboard - Asrock Rack Rome8d-2t CPU - Epyc 7F72 RAM - 256GB 3200MHZ ECC GPU - RTX-3080ti - passed through to Windows (tried a 2070 Super and a 2080 Super) OS Drive - Samsung 980 Pro 500GB VM OS Drives - ZFS Mirror 2x960GB Samsung P9A3 Windows VM Game...
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    Configuring Windows Mapped Network Drive inside VM

    Hi all, I have an issue with an hhd physically forwarded to a Windows VM on my node. Previously, I had the drive installed on a non-VM Windows computer and could map it just fine to my other windows machine. However, with the drive in the VM, my other Windows machine cannot map to the drive...
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    perfDHCP , odd issue

    not a proxmox issue,just a general dhcp issue. Running a windows DC with dhcp, experiencing dhcp issues, clients not getting Ips taking long time etc. ran perfDHCP against the server and this is the result Running: perfdhcp -x i -t 2 -r 10 -R 100 10.a.b.c Scenario: basic. Multi-thread mode...
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    Boot same Windows on real hardware and in VM

    Hi. Thanks for the great product. I run a Proxmox server, some times I'd like to play games on the same machine. So I installed a real Windows on it. 1) /dev/sda: EFI and LVM partitions for Proxmox-on-Debian. Windows EFI bootloader resides here too (as I see it mounted at /boot/EFI. GRUB has...
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    windows server - network load balancing manager

    Hello, we migrated two physical Windows servers 2016 to proxmox. We have used Network Load Balancing that was working really well on those physical windows nodes. Since we migrated those two Windows servers 2016 to Proxmox our load balancing is not working any more. We tried to switch from...
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    Very slow performance in VMs

    Hello everyone! I'm no storage expert but I do observe some subpar disk performance on Windows (I have some linux I can test as well but I didn't notice anything while using them). We use ZFS and we disabled balloon and tablet following https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Performance_Tweaks Here is...
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    iGPU passthrough not working for Windows, but working for Linux

    Hi everyone, I tried running Proxmox on a laptop and it seems to be working great, except for the iGPU passthrough for Windows. I took a look at the following documentation: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/PCI_Passthrough This documentation seems to be working fine for Ubuntu but not in any shape...
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    Migration of Windows Server 2008 R2 to proxmox gives BSOD

    Hello, I am new to proxmox and wanted to migrate my physical server running Win 2008 R2 to proxmox. I converted the C:\ drive using disk2vhd, then converted the vhdx file to qcow2, via qemu in proxmox. My physical server is connected with raid, but I assumed that wouldn't be a problem. I have...
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    Backup script hook missing events?

    Dear all, im running pve 7.4 in a 6 node ceph cluster and active ha manager. We are currently running nightly backups. My goal is to stop specific services on a windows guest vm during the fs-freeze command which is called during snapshot backup to prevent database corruption. As we have the...
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    Passthrough nvme - issue?

    Hey there, I've got a few questions / issues regarding a nvme ssd passed through in a VM. The server has 2 nvmes - one as LVM storage for VM disks, another (Seagate BarraCuda Q5 ZP10000CV30001) passed in a VM. The VM is Windows 11, installed directly onto that nvme as ovmf Q35 ***without*** an...
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    Bester CPU Typ für Windows VMs in Proxmox

    Guten Nachmittag zusammen, ich habe einen Dell T20 mit Xeon 1225 V3 auf diesem ich Proxmox installiert habe. Soweit funktioniert auch alles gut. Mein Hauptverwendungszweck sind virtuelle Maschinen mit Windows 10 und 11. Ich hatte jetzt ein bisschen getestet bezüglich der Einstellungen für die...
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    Compile linux kernel?

    I'm using 2 years proxmox as mainsystem and my Windows as Main VM for work or Gaming. I'm new to this Forum. Question 1: I have been trying to compile a Linux kernel for a long time now, but unfortunately, I am unable to do so. One of the problems is that when I try to make submodules, it asks...
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    Remote Access to VMs

    Hi guys, I have a problem not directly related with Proxmox VE and I don't know how to start looking for a solution. I have a Proxmox VE installed in the office running several VMs (Linux and Windows guests OS), and I need remote access to the windows desktops. First I started configuring...
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    [SOLVED] Windows Server 2022 - QEMU Guest Agent Exec (Failed to execute child process (No such file or directory)

    Proxmox info: - Version: 8.0.4 (pve-manager/8.0.4/d258a813cfa6b390) VM info: - Windows Server 2022 (Latest) - QEMU GA enabled - Machine: Default (i440fx) 8.0 - VirtIO Drivers: 0.1.240 (Latest) Problem: After running sysprep for further cloning of Windows servers, the QEMU guest agent is unable...
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    Windows auf angeschlossenem Bildschirm anzeigen

    Hallo zusammen! Ich bin ganz neu bei dem Thema Proxmox. Was ich vorhabe ist Proxmox mit verschiedenen Containern laufen zu lassen. Was dabei wichtig ist, dass auf dem angeschlossenen Bildschirm Windows (das ich ebenfalls als Container laufen lassen will) gezeigt und ausgeführt wird. Ist das...
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    Create vm - how to allocate cores sockets cpu and memory allocation

    Hi I use following Ram and processor Ryzen™ 5 5600G Desktop Processor (6-core/12-thread, 19MB Cache, up to 4.4 GHz max Boost) 16gb 3200ghz ram I want to create truenas and win 11 as VM's inside proxmox. While creating vm under cpu and memory tab what specs can be allocated for best...

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