Proxmox showing high memory usage, but VM does not

gatackbox

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May 25, 2024
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I just started with Proxmox and have been slowly migrating everything from my Hyper-V environment.
After setting up a standard Windows 11 VM, I've noticed that my memory usage just stays the same, no matter what, but within the VM it shows as barely any being used.
I looked around at other threads, and it seems that because of how Windows VMs work, it will claim to use the RAM regardless of if it actually gets used or not, but I just wanted to make sure that I'm not crazy.

Screenshot in case it helps.

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