Machines are EXTREMELY slow

[Ehoule]

Hey all,
So I just picked up a server from work with 64Gb of RAM and about 8 SAS drives that total about 1TB of storage space. I RAIDed them and decided to install Proxmox to run my VMs.
I wanted to start by creating a windows 12 server VM that I can use as a DC but I've ran into some issues.
At first, I couldn't even start the machine. It would only boot when I went into the options and unchecked the kvm virtualization option.
After that the machine would start BUT the machine is EXTREMELY slow. It look 6 hours to install the OS onto it. When it finally did finish my clicks were delayed by about 30 seconds and it's nearly impossible to work in. Even when I crank up the hardware it just runs very slowly.

I'm new to Proxmox and maybe I'm missing something but this is driving me crazy. Does anyone have any recommendations?

 

[Haider Jarral]

Are you using Virtio Drivers ?

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_VirtIO_Drivers

I had same issue but with Virtio Drivers it was fast. They had to be installed at the beginning of installation.

 

[Ehoule]

Alright so the issue was that my server didn't have virtualization enabled.... Wow I feel dumb.

 

[LnxBil]

Wow I feel dumb.

Don't be. There was a time when this was disabled by default and e.g. resetting to factory settings disabled it again.