Install Windows 2016 Server on Proxmox VE (Video tutorial)
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You need re-download and check with MD5 or SHA. this is caused download incomplete.
Thanks, re downloaded the ISO, but Fedora does not provide check sums ... setup still fails.
Hi guys! I´m having a problem with proxmox NOVNC, the main node´s NOVNC(pve) works fine the lxc too, but the VMs´s does not, neither in firefox, chrome nor safari. Please help, do I have to ativate something? how can I proced
Hi guys! I've problem with installing windows 2016 on proxmox 5, proxmox installed on Sata SSD disk, I mount another nvmeSSD disk to directory, create new VM with scsi HDD on that nvme SSD disk, such in tutorial video, and when I load drivers for virtioscsi, installer found my disk, but I couldn't press next, i have error: "windows cannot be installed on this disk. Couldn't find boot disk on this bios-based computer". I don't know what to do, if create sata vm disk, installation finished good. Can somebody help me?
Big tanks.
Update 25.10: Install newer Proxmox 5.1 and update debian to 9.2. Windows 2016 Install run good, no errors. I don't know where was the problem.
Big tanks.
Update 25.10: Install newer Proxmox 5.1 and update debian to 9.2. Windows 2016 Install run good, no errors. I don't know where was the problem.
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Dear proxmox staff:
I've tried to build pve5.0 at experimental place, which is my home,
however, no matter how i tried, by using proxmox default zfs raid0 or raid1 installation,
after the pve installed, everything looked right,
until i tried to create win2012r2 or 2016 vm,
the vm installation idled or stop at installing windows system files about 8-10% progress,
then pve just shut the vm down,
this problem didn't show when i just install pve on ext4 format,
my testing environment is on ASUS BM5675/MD500 PC with two 500GB disks, 16 GB DDR3 ram
thanks for your reply
I've tried to build pve5.0 at experimental place, which is my home,
however, no matter how i tried, by using proxmox default zfs raid0 or raid1 installation,
after the pve installed, everything looked right,
until i tried to create win2012r2 or 2016 vm,
the vm installation idled or stop at installing windows system files about 8-10% progress,
then pve just shut the vm down,
this problem didn't show when i just install pve on ext4 format,
my testing environment is on ASUS BM5675/MD500 PC with two 500GB disks, 16 GB DDR3 ram
thanks for your reply
Hi @edward jung,
I think you have problems with your memory.
ZFS required ECC memory.
Generell I can tell you any Windows run fine on ZFS.
If you want to discuss in detail please open a new thread.
I think you have problems with your memory.
ZFS required ECC memory.
Generell I can tell you any Windows run fine on ZFS.
If you want to discuss in detail please open a new thread.
Tried to install SPICE in Windows Server 2016 Standard (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/SPICE) and it tells me it's an unsupported Windows version. I looked around and it seemed like this was patched in the latest release. My 2016 server is fully patched but it the guest tools just won't finish installing. Anyone have success with this?
EDIT: well I was able to get it working by installing the qxl driver and vdagent manually and then restarting. Works great, so much better.
EDIT: well I was able to get it working by installing the qxl driver and vdagent manually and then restarting. Works great, so much better.
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Hi guys, I followed this tutorial but I'm not able to get the Network working on Win10 1703 (I know this is a tutorial on Windows server 2k16 but it should be pretty similar install process no ?).
I always got an "Unidentified Network / No Internet" with the bridge on vmbr0 with virtio 0.1.141 drivers. I have made a thread here if someone knows what's I'm doing wrong ^^.
I always got an "Unidentified Network / No Internet" with the bridge on vmbr0 with virtio 0.1.141 drivers. I have made a thread here if someone knows what's I'm doing wrong ^^.
i have big Problems downloading virtio-win-0.1.141.iso
file it stops after 50MB
another question, i installed win7 and win10 and it seems to work without this virtio - could this be a problem.
have a nice day
vinc
file it stops after 50MB
another question, i installed win7 and win10 and it seems to work without this virtio - could this be a problem.
have a nice day
vinc
Hello,
I came to this video because I have problems with ballooning on Windows Server 2016. Unfortunately the ballooning doesn´t work for me. I installed the ballooning driver, in device manager it is shown as ok. Also I installed the service with Administrator user trough cmd and the service definetly runs fine. Though the ballooning doesn´t work, all RAM is taken by Windows. Do you have any idea what I probably missed or is there any issue currently? Of course I also set static RAM with ballooning tick in Proxmox.
Greetings,
Thomas
I came to this video because I have problems with ballooning on Windows Server 2016. Unfortunately the ballooning doesn´t work for me. I installed the ballooning driver, in device manager it is shown as ok. Also I installed the service with Administrator user trough cmd and the service definetly runs fine. Though the ballooning doesn´t work, all RAM is taken by Windows. Do you have any idea what I probably missed or is there any issue currently? Of course I also set static RAM with ballooning tick in Proxmox.
Greetings,
Thomas
Actually you need to use "Automatic Memory Allocation" for this sort of ballooning, see:
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_memory
It's a bit confusing, I know, but the ballooning checkbox is actually for correct memory accounting in the fixed memory range case.
In the variable case it does both, accurate accounting and setting the memory target.
(the device makes sometimes problems for certain windows versions, thus it can also be disabled for the fixed memory case).
Hello,
Thank you for your reply. I saw my mistake, the RAM usage on the host does not change, but on the VM Proxmox will see how much RAM Windows actually consumes. So let´s say I start Windows with 28GB + ballooning on a 32GB host, the nodes OS will say 28GB is populated and 4GB is free, although Windows might use only 2GB currently. Will I be able to start another VM with lets say 8GB of RAM of will KVM be on strike because it can not allocate 8GB at startup?
Further when I choose Automatic Memory Allocation can Proxmox still reduce the RAM of the Windows guest without knowing from the ballooning device how much RAM is really used and which part can be taken away from the VM?
Greetings,
Thomas
Thank you for your reply. I saw my mistake, the RAM usage on the host does not change, but on the VM Proxmox will see how much RAM Windows actually consumes. So let´s say I start Windows with 28GB + ballooning on a 32GB host, the nodes OS will say 28GB is populated and 4GB is free, although Windows might use only 2GB currently. Will I be able to start another VM with lets say 8GB of RAM of will KVM be on strike because it can not allocate 8GB at startup?
Further when I choose Automatic Memory Allocation can Proxmox still reduce the RAM of the Windows guest without knowing from the ballooning device how much RAM is really used and which part can be taken away from the VM?
Greetings,
Thomas
From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377155#c33
Device manager -> Right click HID Button over Interrupt Driver -> Click Update Driver Software...
Click "Browse my computer for driver software"
Click "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"
Select "Generic Bus" and click Next.
Click Close and the device should now be operating fine
And I've test it can shutdown normally