Perhaps Spectre, Meltdown and other CPU mitigations could be a factor

Hi, I'm switching over from VMware ESXi 6.7U2 to XCP-ng 8.2.1 and in this process I'm reusing my old hosts. Blue Iris 5.x have been running on one of my HPE DL380 Gen9 servers for years, with 12 virtual cpu's assigned and 12 GB of RAM. When trying to switch over to XCP-ng the CPU usage went up from ...

Hi Paul,

Sorry for reviving an old post, but I have acquired several Axis 1435-LE cameras and I'm testing them with Blue Iris right now.
Have you been able to activate the cameras optical zoom or other features via Blue Iris?