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    Re: Windows VM Memory Full Issues (Driver locked RAM)

    Hi. Continuing https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/windows-vm-memory-full-issues.90295/ thread as it was marked as solved but it's not actually. I have the same problem and the same picture in both Windows Task Manager and Proxmox GUI. VirtIO drivers including balloon seem to be installed: when...
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    [SOLVED] Windows VM failed to boot after restore

    Hi, i need help. I'm in panic. I want to restore a Windows VM from a backup, the restoration process ends OK but when i try to start the VM it doesn't. I am getting this error: TASK ERROR: start failed: command '/usr/bin/kvm -id 100 -chardev...
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    Linked Clones Unavailable to VMs!

    Hello, Are you able to create a LINKED CLONE from a VM? I find so much information about how to do it, yet I am not able to. After a great deal of frustration switching from a Directory storage to LVM-Thin, based on this Proxmox guide: VM Templates and Clones; I still did not have any...
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    Performance issues with GPU passthrough

    Hi everyone, I was able to set a vm with gpu passthrough and use it for quite a while now. Until now i was also quite happy with the performance. However some games (ori and the will of the whisps, RE Village) the performance drops to 5 fps. Other games run with 120fps without any problems. My...
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    Passthrough question

    I am doing audio passthrough. 00:1f.3 is the audio device I want to passthrough to my Windows 10 VM. /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/13/devices/0000:00:1f.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/13/devices/0000:00:1f.5 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/13/devices/0000:00:1f.3...
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    Windows 10 clone : Sysprep not work

    Hello, I created a Windows 10 VM on which I did all the updates, installed all the drivers, made all my personnal configurations and now I would like to be able to duplicate this VM. So, I wanted to convert this VM as a template but before, that I saw that it was necessary to run the SYSPREP...
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    Is It Possible to redirect Linux Laptop Webcam for use inside a Windows VM Desktop?

    I am using Remmina on a Linux laptop to access a remote Windows VM via RDP. Would like to redirect my laptop webcam into the remote windows VM. Is this possible?
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    SPICE in Win10/Server2019 VMs

    Moin zusammen. Als Proxmox-Neuling (die letzten Jahre habe ich ausschließlich Hyper-V/ESXi verwendet) habe ich mir jetzt testweise 2x Proxmox VE aufgesetzt. Auf der einen Maschine laufen ausschließlich Linux-Systeme und das erfreulich rund ;) Das 2. System beherbergt momentan 2x Windows VMs...
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    [SOLVED] Windows Blue Screen/Crash after V2V with NTFS-Errors caused by Antivirus Product

    Hello together, I just want to share an experience with migration of one of our servers which resulted in bsod right just before login screen appears. First of all, thanks for proxmox and its availability. We started with multiple test VMs and productive VMs being itself part of a testsytem...
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    Passthrough disk to windows showing wrong partitioning?

    Hi. I currently have a server running Windows 10. For the data disks I am using bitlocker, snapraid and drivepool. I am running many services and want to test moving to proxmox. Most can be run on linux, but I am not ready to move all the data disks to zfs yet. I have ~45 TB now and not much...
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    Native CEPH access from non-Linux OSes

    I wanted to know what was the status of non-Linux OSes support for direct access to native I/O paths of Ceph with RADOS. I am trying to evaluate which existing program would allow a direct CEPH cluster access in order to avoid using iSCSI or CIFS gateways. Idea is to use such programs to...
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    [SOLVED] Windows cloud init latency

    Hi. I have created a windows 2019 cloud init image, following this tutorial, and using that image, I've created a VM using cloud init parameters for network and setting password. The VM works, but there is a big problem. It takes around 10 minutes for cloud parameters to apply. That is how log I...
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    Windows VM really Bad Memory Performance!

    Hello there lovely people. So, as the title says, Memory Performance is really bad. I tried to debug this since 3 or 4 Weeks now and I´m all out of Ideas. In a Linux VM i get around 24GB/s with 1M BS which is around the maximum my Board/System can handle. I used the Phoronix Test Suite as a...
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    [TUTORIAL] After searching for a way to automagically connect to SPICE and coming up empty handed, I've created a script for anyone with the same issue!

    Let me preface this by saying this is specifically for Windows. A large part of my solution actually uses the officially recommended BASH script, and what I've created is essentially a batch file that executes said script on a remote Linux machine and then copies the output to be executed by the...
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    [SOLVED] windows 2016 Optimize-Volume ReTrim

    The Proxmox VE 6.3 (Hyper-converged Infrastructure) cluster has a virtual machine running MS Windows 2016. Characteristics of this virtual machine bootdisk: scsi0 ostype: win10 scsi0: rbd:vm-126-disk-0,discard=on,size=256G scsi1: rbd:vm-126-disk-1,discard=on,size=1000G scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci...
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    how to add shared Storage to windows VMs

    Hello everyone, i have 1 Disk where proxmox is installed on and another Raid 1 mounted as /data on the host I'd like to give my 2 windows VMs read &write access to that raid / a folder on it. I'v read a few articles on sharing disks beween VMS, though it seems like there are various solutions...
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    [SOLVED] Windows VM - no connection

    Hello everyone, I just installed my pve 6.3-2 like this https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Buster followed by this https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_2019_guest_best_practices Since i only have 1 IP i choose the NAT setup explained here...
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    Windows VM NIC disconnects and how to fix it

    As we moved to PVE 6.2 (just several hosts, not huge install), we noticed that Windows server VMs we used to run on PVE are to see sudden NIC stop working. The fix is really simple: set NIC to not connected (no link) in PVE web interface, apply changes, the connect it again and apply again - all...
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    RDP - Windows Desktop Remote Control (slow or black window)

    I order a new dedicated server with Proxmox and one VM. 10Gb Ram 6 Core @ 3.50GHz (1 Socket) When connect to RDP go right , but when try to COPY & PASTE from my computer to dedicated server start copy for few second and stop. The RDP go to black windows and I need to close RDP and...
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    VM geht bei Migration aus

    Hallo zusammen, folgende Situation habe ich, die Server sind alle Windows 2012R2: Proxmox 1: Server1 Server2 ID: 301 Proxmox 2: Server3 Server4 Die Server sind auf dem local-lvm gespeichert. Jedes mal wenn ich von Proxmox2 einen Server auf Proxmox1 migrieren möchte, geht auf Proxmox1 jedes...