Windows on Damien Dye's Blog https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/windows/ Recent content in Windows on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0100 Licence-Free Windows VDI on Proxmox with an Intel Arc Pro B50 — and the Firmware Limit That Stopped It https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/licence-free-vdi-intel-arc-pro-sriov/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/licence-free-vdi-intel-arc-pro-sriov/ Intel's Arc Pro cards do SR-IOV natively, with no vGPU licence to buy — which makes a licence-free Windows VDI on Proxmox genuinely possible. The whole build on a B50, the Windows-first bootstrap problem, why the firmware caps it at two virtual functions, and how many each card in the B-series gives you. A VM's Clock Cannot Be Trusted — and the ptp_kvm Fix for QEMU/KVM https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/vm-time-ptp-kvm/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/vm-time-ptp-kvm/ A virtual machine's clock is built on an assumption virtualisation breaks: that the CPU keeps counting. Why guest time drifts on every hypervisor, what the skew actually breaks — Kerberos, TLS, Ceph, Windows — and how ptp_kvm fixes it properly on QEMU/KVM.