Fixing “Guest has not initialized the display (yet)” in Proxmox

mqamyouness

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Oct 29, 2025
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Hi everyone,


I’m running a VM in Proxmox, and when I try to open the console, I see the following message:


“Guest has not initialized the display (yet)”

The VM appears to be running, but there is no video output. I’m not sure why this is happening — the VM was working before (or it’s newly created/restored), but now I can’t access the console at all.


Has anyone encountered this before? What could cause a VM in Proxmox to start but not initialize the display?


Any insights would be appreciated!