@Greg_E thanks for the feedback. I am stuck on this one. is either host or chipset specific and I don't have another e5-2680 v3 to test with. found another post on here around the same time frame that has this same error on boot. hope its not a broader issue.

https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/10075/imported-vm-starts-but-does-not-initialize-the-display