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    Windows 11 Very Low Performance

    I've just installed Proxmox on my mini PC. It's weird because the CPU is very low according to Proxmox dashboard - around 1% but RAM is around 18GBs when there's just Windows launched. I've allocated 20GBs of RAM thinking that would be an overkill but it seems it's not. Proxmox host: CPU...
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    Windows VSS Backups Error 12298

    Hi, I have sometimes errors with the VSS Writer making Backups. Windows Event Log Summary: Jul 05 12:11:29 0.12298 VSS Volume Shadow Copy Service error: The I/O writes cannot be held during the shadow copy creation period on volume \?\Volume{8f7aaeb9-08b6-42dc-8866-e03d56525d84}\. The volume...
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    Proxmox VM error

    Hello, I am setting up a home server/VM with my raspberry pi 4. Proxmox is set up along with storage to use, I have tried setting up a windows VM using an iso but get this error code when I try to start it up. “kvm: -no-hpet: Option not supported for this target TASK ERROR: start failed: QEMU...
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    How to connect to VM using SPICE on Windows 10

    So I am not really a fan of using NoVNC in the browser as there are quite a few missing features in my opinion like a shared clipboard. So I looked into SPICE and found that it could work better. So I changed the display of one of my VMs to SPICE and tried downloading virt-manager on my Windows...
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    Physical Access to VMs

    Can something like this be achieved with Proxmox? Basic Idea: 1) One Mirror Pool with 3 ZVols, each containing a Windows 11 VM 2) Pass through 3 Nvidia A4000 to these three VMs respectively as the GPU 3) Output the VM i.e., Windows on an external Monitor connected to these GPUs Plan to run 3...
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    [SOLVED] VM crash with Backup Job

    I check and do test to reproduce the error. 1st Test : If I create a Back Job star and end right, but in some hours later crash. I create a daily job and every day crash. 2nd Test : For 2 week I run backup manualy from VM and never crash. 3rd Test : Create a new job for Monday and Wenesday...
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    windows firewall is greyed out

    Hi, I noticed my windows firewall service in the VM is not running and it is even greyed out, so I cannot start it. Is this a Proxmox thingy??
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    Proxmox Cloud-init template Windows

    Is there documentation on how to create a Proxmox Windows cloud-initiated template from scratch?
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    Desktop Performance mit CPU "Host"

    Hallo zusammen, hatte schonmal jemand das gleiche Problem einer schlechten Desktop performance in Windows, wenn man den CPU Type der VM auf "Host" setzt? Die CPU ist ein Intel Xeon W-2245. Wenn ich die CPU der VM auf KVM64 setze, ist die Performance normal.
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    [SOLVED] Win2019 VMs losing network connectivity

    Hello, i am currently trying to troubleshoot a problem with some of my windows server 2019 vms. They repeatedly lose network connectivity, regardless of the vm settings used. Rebooting the vm seems to solve the problem for a while until it reappears again. I already tried switching between...
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    April 2022 MS updates hanging Windows guest

    We are on 7.1-8 For the April 2022 round of Microsoft Windows updates, i.e. 2022-04 Cumulative, looks like it is hanging 100% of our Windows guest VM upon restart. I.e. after applying patches within VM, restart per normal process, but the VM gets stuck on the MS-logo with swirl. Will stay...
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    Use PsExec to run commands on user session via qemu guest agent

    Hi, I'm trying to execute a script on a vm via the qemu guest agents api exec. However all the commands get executed without a connection the the current user session. so when I for example run powershell via the api it only shows up in task manger as a process but does not show the console on...
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    Windows VM hangs on boot with Hyper-V enabled on Alder Lake

    Hi, I've recently setup an Intel I5-12600 as a Proxmox host and I can't get Windows VMs with the hypervisor platform enabled to boot with the CPU set to host (boots just fine with the KVM64 CPU). The same VM boots just fine on a different Intel based Proxmox host and it boots just fine. Nested...
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    High Bandwidth (Download) Causes VM to Lockup

    Hi there, I'm having an issue on my hosts (2) wherein whenever I download large files/ISO's or run Speedtests etc and it consumes most of the available bandwidth for my ISP downlink (1Gbps), it seems to tank the Windows VM I am using at the time to download. I am connecting to the Windows VM's...
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    SSD's slow on Proxmox but not on Windows

    Hello, i have a weird problem i cant understand, i have a couple of cheap 1tb kingston ssds (yes i know that comes with its own problems) that i have ran in SW RAID1, ive been running my VM's of this raid pool, but what i have found out is that after about 6gb of writes, the speed goes all the...
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    PVE 7.1 with zfs - best practices for Windows VM hard disk

    Dear community, after reading a lot in this forum I would like to post my first thread in order to get some clarification. I am looking for the best performing setup for a Windows 10 VM on a PVE 7.1 - with local zfs file system raid10 (4 x middle aged enterprise SSD) underneath - with plenty of...
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    Fail to clone Windows 10 VM with Input/Output error, after power loss and volume group activation

    I try to clone Windows 10 VM through the web console, however it fails again and again. ``` create full clone of drive scsi0 (local-lvm:vm-995-disk-0) Logical volume "vm-130-disk-0" created. transferred 0.0 B of 128.0 GiB (0.00%) transferred 1.3 GiB of 128.0 GiB (1.00%) transferred 2.6 GiB of...
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    Window VPS lose Network connection during Replication

    Hello, I notice on some instances of Windows Server 2016 the loss of the network when the replication starts. When I log in the icon has an exclamation point and I have to disable the network and reactivate it. Did it happen to you? Some Windows logs: Thanks!
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    [Proxmox 7, Windows Guest] Is this kind of HAL usage normal, if not what can we do?

    The organization I work for is currently comparing VM overhead between Proxmox 7 and Hyper-V after calls that the Proxmox hosted terminal server had slowdowns. While I did not manage to catch the exact cause of the slowdowns in time in my analysis I did notice the observation that the reported...
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    cloudbase-init für automatische Erstellung von Windows Servern verwenden

    Ich habe mich im Internet schon ein wenig umgeschaut, dadurch habe ich herausgefunden, dass cloudbase-init die Windows variante von Cloud-Init Linux ist. Nur habe ich leider keine Installationsanleitungen für Proxmox gefunden, damit die Windows Server automatisch installiert werden. Wenn es...

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