i was thinking you were gonna convert the windows install to a virtual image for proxmox. But this tuto is also good, just not what i was looking for. Nice Job
@@EverythingbySam Do you have a video showing how to make a backup and restoring to a different drive? would be useful. Im sure I could figure it out but lots of people would likely do this.
@@EverythingbySam Please make this or at least leave instructions! following this video and substituting the physical drive for a qcow conversion from a VHDx backup only gets you to the recovery screen and I'm not sure where to go from there! specifically you get "INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE" then you do windows repair and change the devices in that blue and black DOS screen
Gotta say thanks x1000 man, you saved me from having to buy another hard drive, clone it with clone Zilla, uploading the iso to proxmox then trying to run it like that. Now I didn’t even have to buy a hard drive or extra anything. Thanks!
Hi, I rarely leave any comments on videos. But, I have to say. Your video rocks! Extremely helpful. I followed it step by step and I got it to work. Amazing! It saved me a lot of time given that I was thinking of creating a backup and go from there. Thank you so much! Please keep up the good work. Subscribed!!!!
Hello! Firstly, thank you, I appreciate the feedback. I do always wonder if I am being clear and informative in all my videos and like to hear when people manage to successfully implement whatever I am trying to teach.
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Great job!! And to think that the whole time I was trying to copy the operating systems into Proxmox without knowing this simpler solution. Thank you very much!
Yup, it also gives you the flexibility for you to clone the drive to a bigger drive if you run out of space then pass that back through like nothing changed really.
Great Guide, but small not: If the drive is an nvme drive, it does not start with "ata-", but with "nvme-" which can also be checked easily by going to the shell and cd into /dev/disks/by-id/ Other than that, amazing Guide! You helped me get into Proxmox :)
@@Warrorar It’s all good mate. As long as your comment has the correct information (which it did of course) there is nothing wrong with restating something as it may help someone in the future.
Thank you!!!! I used this tutorial, and had a couple of things that weren't like in your video: 1. My disk by id script just WOULD NOT WORK. I figured it was the id itself so I used "ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/" to find my disk id (ignoring partition) and the issue was it was "nvme" instead of "ata". 2. The UEFI did not boot, but changing to Default (SeaBIOS) worked I'm actually mid-way through the instructions, but so far my windows machine has booted, so I'm happy :). THANKS!
Massive Thank You!!! I've tried about 5 or 6 different ways to convert a physical Windows 10 to a Proxmox VM over the past week and this was the only way that resulted in a bootable machine that didn't crap out on a sytem repair. Rather than assembling the disk by-id path yourself, you can in the shell use "ls /dev/disk/by-id" find the 'root' entry (ends with the serial number) and cut/past the ID from there. In my case it was nvme-... rather than ata-... which caused some initial confusion.
@@EverythingbySam no problem, I got everything working including GPU and USB port passthrough for my 4K HDMI KVM switch, shows up fine in Windows (attached VNC console to check) with the correct vendor/product ID but have been totally unable to get it to work in Windows. Its there showing all the correct HID devices but when I switch to the dedicated KVM channel I have video but no KBD/Mouse. Pondering next steps but may have to give up & use RDP.
Can be this virtualizeed system moved on virtual disk for fully virtualization? This is good hint but in this case is I`m still depended on physical disk. The main magic of virtualization is in hoping between nodes and independence from "iron".
@@EverythingbySam I`ve tried it and it`s works.I had to change some details (bios, network card, graphic...etc) but my old system (win7) wa fully virtualized. I`m going to try virtualized Win 2019 server at customer side now.
@@poradnanet2005 congratulations mate, glad it all worked out. I have personally used the snapshot restore multiple times to move old installs from their original drive to a virtual partition.
@@EverythingbySam Interesting idea use snapshots instead of windows backup.I have FreeNAS as personal NAS at home but I can change it to Proxmox because I`m using Proxmox as primary virtual platform at customers. Thanks for this video..it was new for me.
Its quicker to use disk2VHD to add to Proxmox. Yes you can use the physical HDD but with newer installs of Windows the product key will be compromised. Better to have an machine to boot to if something goes wrong. Also a good idea is to advise to back up your data before embarking on this adventure. Nice video. Subscribed.
@@8bitkid408 thank you for your suggestions and the sub. The main scenario of this video was a Windows install you want to boot to recover a bit of data from but you don’t have a spare PC but you dohave Proxmox available. I don’t really value Windows products keys as they are cheap and you can run Windows unactivated perfectly fine with only downside being the watermark which to me isn’t an issue at all especially on a virtualised version that I hope people aren’t using as a main system. Backing up your drive isn’t so necessary as because we are passing through the entire drive with effecting the configuration it’s nearly impossible to corrupt the data or suffer any loss. As soon as you get the VM running you can run a snapshot backup or add it into your backup configuration. At most the drive won’t boot but you can still recover data from it but I understand not everyone is that tech savvy.
@@EverythingbySam It's not tech savvy. It's showing someone an unsafe method without informing your viewers of the risk, which in my opinion is foolish.
@@8bitkid408 Good thing that is just your opinion then as nothing about it is “unsafe” as I did this method with several drives and never once compromised the information of the drive as you are not directly affecting the drive data by doing this method, you can still remove the drive and boot it in another system if you have one available to you. Just because I did not show a backup option does not invalidate this method, Proxmox has inbuilt backup options. I encourage you to make your own tutorial with your method instead of slightly alluding to what to do in a comment section of a different video. Giving people more options is never a bad thing so I look forward to your video.
@@8bitkid408 a disclaimer to say what exactly? I cannot cover all bases and everything you do in life contains some form of risk. In terms of risk this method has basically no risk at all as you are not directly effecting the data. Just because you may be overly cautious does not mean anyone needs to cater towards the very minute chance of an issue that may arise.
Thank you for this! If I virtualize an OEM Windows 11 install using your method, will the key and activation remain uncompromised? IE: New workstation that comes with Windows 11 Pro OEM -> Add new Proxmox boot drive -> Virtualize the OEM that came with the workstation.
No, the hardware ID will be different so you will need to reactivate it. Sometimes Windows remains activated after a hardware change but it is never consistent.
For me, I am new to Promox. I have an old(er) PC with Windows 7 that I would like to migrate to proxmox. I have created already a VHDX, as backup of the data. But what is the best way to get that one into proxmox. If I clone the hard drive to another SSD, put the SSD in proxmox and follow your instructions. After that I make a clone and switch off the virtual machine. After that I can make a new VM machine and import the clone?
@@arjan-nuts-gaming install the HDD into your Proxmox machine, follow all the steps to get it working then take a snapshot backup of the VM and restore the snapshot and remove the original VM that is using the HDD.
Thank you for this concise explanation. One question: why don't you install the VirtIO drivers in the natively booted Windows before virtualising it? Would Windows crash if it had these drivers installed without running in a VM?
That should work doing it that way as well but if you don’t have a spare PC to run up the Windows install this is easier. The scenario I was working from when writing this is you only have the Windows drive.
Awesome video..this was a great help. I was thinking about copying the entire hard drive and converting it or something crazy..but I knew there was an easier way..thanks.
Amazing tutorial! Thanks for that! If I may, I'd like to ask for a little help. My situation is a little bit different, but I think it's something many people would need. I have a Dell laptop with an NVME 2 TB Drive, with a licenced and activated Windows 11 preinstalled. I'd like to: 1. Partition the drive, leaving Windows on 1st partition and Proxmox on another one. 2. Install Proxmox on another partition alongside Windows 11. 3. In Proxmox, create a Windows VM using Partition 1 as the drive. 4. Configure whatever is necessary for Windows 11 to "think" they are still on the same place, activated and ready to go. Premise: I would not mind if I could not boot Windows on bare metal ever again, only on a VM inside Proxmox. But if I could, it would be great! Is it possible?
@@henriqueulbrichoficial definitely a unique situation that I don’t think many people would need at you stated but it is possible, I am just not going to cover it sorry. There are much better ways of going about this and I cannot imagine a situation where this is the only option. If your laptop supports 2 drives, install Proxmox on 1 and Windows 11 on the other, pass the Windows 11 drive through to Proxmox when you want to run Proxmox and boot the Windows 11 drive when you want to run it bare metal if you want a portable Proxmox server. I personally would not partition a single drive to do this although it is possible. Get yourself a cheap Dell or HP SFF PC to run Proxmox on that is an option for you and do not need portability.
@@EverythingbySam my scenario may be common, I think. I need to carry the Lab around as a demonstration to clients and as a teaching tool. So I need to make WiFi work, because it is indeed a mobile situation. I don't think I am the only one in need of this (there are teachers all over the world). I understand you won't go into it, and I thank you anyway for taking your time to answer me. After consideration, and with a lot of grief because I really wanted to use KVM and Proxmox, I went with Hyper-V. Which is a bummer.
@@EverythingbySam I also have the same situation in the process of figuring out how to do it, I might need to create a fresh windows installation, but I'm currently struggling to get a single partition on the same drive to be attached as a drive for my new VM, which is getting a bit trickier than I thought. PS: I have proxmox and windows on the same drive but different partitions, and I'm also struggling with the wifi network adapter to work properly for the vm.
@ These are the types of issues that will come up when you try to do a setup like you are trying to achieve. You are making it as complicated as possible. I understand why you are trying to achieve it, but I would just never do it that way in the first place. It is best to at a minimum, separate Proxmox and Windows on separate drives as even though you can pass through a partition, it is adding extra complication. As for Wi-Fi drivers, you are stuck with whatever drivers Proxmox includes in their distro unless you can find a Linux driver for your specific Wi-Fi chip and add it to Proxmox manually.
Wonderful video, exactly what I wanted, thanks! Just one thing: if I want to import multiple Nvmes or SATA Devices, do I need to -scsi2 or -sata2 for the second ones or is the -sata1 argument are regular term? In my mind it's the denomination that the VM config uses for the device and needs -sata1, -sata2, -sata3 for further devices... am I right?
Yup that’s correct, just increase the number for each additional drive otherwise you will mount the new drive over the top of the exisiting drive if you use the same number.
Great tutorial. Seems so easy. I have a windows 10 pro machine running docker with a dozen containers or so with plex/jellyfin tailscale etc. Was looking for an easy way to convert that bare metal machine to proxmox vm as I don't want to re-setup all my configs. I've got also some external drives which I share through samba. Can that work in the VM?
Yup, just connect them to your bare metal Proxmox system then pass them through to your Windows install VM with the commands I listed. I personally would split the Docker containers away from the Windows install and move it to a Linux OS purely due to the amount of issues that randomly arise with Windows based system such as failed Windows update.
@@EverythingbySam I haven't found an easy way to migrate my docker containers from my windows machine to a Linux environment. I think it will take me weeks to manually rebuild them and I'm trying to avoid that.
@@tmaris copy Docker data to network share, attach network share to Linux environment, copy data to new location on Linux, recreate Docker containers. You could install Portainer then export and import via the GUI.
Thanks so much for asking this question, as I'm in very similar position, and to @EverythingbySam for responding. Were you able to get the external (Samba) shares working? How about Plex with hardware encoding/decoding for multiple remote streams? Any notes on how existing opened ports / port forwards are managed? Do I just set them up again in the Proxmox OS and then pass that on to the Windows 10 VM? Related question: I have 5 internal & external HDDs connected via SATA & USB, respectively, that I would want to connect to my W10 VM. Is the process similar to what was shown in the video, and can they be mapped to their existing drive letters to avoid rescanning media for Plex & other apps?
@@alphaomega5017 that is an easy one. You haven’t set your boot order correctly in your motherboard BIOS boot menu. This is a per motherboard setting so not so easy to make a video about as there are many different models with the setting located in different sections.
ERROR (too many arguments) ProTip If your drive has a space between letters, replace with an underscore _ *SO: qm set 105 -sata1 /dev/disk/by-id/nvme-WDC PC SN730 SDBQNTY-XXX-XXX *Should be : qm set 105 -sata1 /dev/disk/by-id/nvme-WDC_PC_SN730_SDBQNTY-XXX-XXX Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Great video. I got it working but mine was not nvme or ata, it was usb. Now I am creating a backup and will restore the backup to a new VM so I can remove the drive. Do I need to do anything to undo the qm set command before or after erasing the original vm?
Once I have added my Win10 the way you describe, is there an easy way to move over the disk on the proxmox disks and remove the original wi dows disk afterwards?
Hi, beautiful video! I´m new to proxmox and instead of dual boot all the time. Kan I passthrough my IGPU to this windows install drive in Proxmox? Thanks!
No you cannot passthrough your entire IGPU, only additional graphics cards. The virtual machine will utilise a portion of your IGPU by default for graphics though.
Ok, I understand. Hopefully it will be enough during the time it takes me to understand how to set up an LXC container for plex 🙂 Thanks for the reply!
Run an Ubuntu VM with Plex and Jellyfin like I have so you can pass a GPU through later if you want or you could install docker on the Ubuntu VM and run them in containers. Bit more flexible in my opinion.
I have a pc with a single ssd. I want to go from Windows 11 to Proxmox and vm with windows 11. I only have an external hard drive as additional storage. How can I achieve this? Do i need to buy another ssd and install proxmox on that one?
This method basically wipes out your Windows key as unfortunately detects a new motherboard. You might have luck using your exisiting key to re-activate it but there is no guarantee.
@@nickpetrovsky I do not deem activation important for Windows to tell you the truth, they let you run it unactivated with really no consequence but a watermark and keys are cheap if that does concern you.
root@pve:~# qm set 101 -sata1 /dev/disk/by-id/nvme-WDC WDS240G20C-00AJM0_21244F802861 400 too many arguments qm set [OPTIONS] root@pve:~# mine throwing this error, any help please.
i was thinking you were gonna convert the windows install to a virtual image for proxmox. But this tuto is also good, just not what i was looking for. Nice Job
You could create a backup of the virtual machine then restore it to a different drive if that is what you want to achieve.
@@EverythingbySam Do you have a video showing how to make a backup and restoring to a different drive? would be useful. Im sure I could figure it out but lots of people would likely do this.
@@MichaelMantion I will consider making it as a couple of people have asked. I have just been really busy lately so it might take a while.
@@EverythingbySam Please make this or at least leave instructions! following this video and substituting the physical drive for a qcow conversion from a VHDx backup only gets you to the recovery screen and I'm not sure where to go from there! specifically you get "INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE" then you do windows repair and change the devices in that blue and black DOS screen
Gotta say thanks x1000 man, you saved me from having to buy another hard drive, clone it with clone Zilla, uploading the iso to proxmox then trying to run it like that. Now I didn’t even have to buy a hard drive or extra anything. Thanks!
Hi,
I rarely leave any comments on videos. But, I have to say. Your video rocks! Extremely helpful. I followed it step by step and I got it to work. Amazing! It saved me a lot of time given that I was thinking of creating a backup and go from there. Thank you so much! Please keep up the good work. Subscribed!!!!
Hello!
Firstly, thank you, I appreciate the feedback.
I do always wonder if I am being clear and informative in all my videos and like to hear when people manage to successfully implement whatever I am trying to teach.
Great job!! And to think that the whole time I was trying to copy the operating systems into Proxmox without knowing this simpler solution. Thank you very much!
That's pretty cool. Nice thing about this setup is you can do a backup. And then restore to a different server's storage so you can remove the SSD.
Yup, it also gives you the flexibility for you to clone the drive to a bigger drive if you run out of space then pass that back through like nothing changed really.
Great Guide, but small not: If the drive is an nvme drive, it does not start with "ata-", but with "nvme-" which can also be checked easily by going to the shell and cd into /dev/disks/by-id/
Other than that, amazing Guide! You helped me get into Proxmox :)
I have that listed in the description
. @EverythingbySam damn, i'm so sorry, your video was so straight forward that i was not even in need of the description. I appologize.
@@Warrorar It’s all good mate. As long as your comment has the correct information (which it did of course) there is nothing wrong with restating something as it may help someone in the future.
Thank you!!!! I used this tutorial, and had a couple of things that weren't like in your video:
1. My disk by id script just WOULD NOT WORK. I figured it was the id itself so I used "ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/" to find my disk id (ignoring partition) and the issue was it was "nvme" instead of "ata".
2. The UEFI did not boot, but changing to Default (SeaBIOS) worked
I'm actually mid-way through the instructions, but so far my windows machine has booted, so I'm happy :). THANKS!
The NVME script is in the description but I probably should have mentioned it sorry.
Thakns dude, I've been searching for it for a long time and you explained it almost perfectly. Huge props to You!!
Massive Thank You!!! I've tried about 5 or 6 different ways to convert a physical Windows 10 to a Proxmox VM over the past week and this was the only way that resulted in a bootable machine that didn't crap out on a sytem repair.
Rather than assembling the disk by-id path yourself, you can in the shell use "ls /dev/disk/by-id" find the 'root' entry (ends with the serial number) and cut/past the ID from there. In my case it was nvme-... rather than ata-... which caused some initial confusion.
I do have the NVMe syntax listed in the description although it’s probably not that obvious sorry.
@@EverythingbySam no problem, I got everything working including GPU and USB port passthrough for my 4K HDMI KVM switch, shows up fine in Windows (attached VNC console to check) with the correct vendor/product ID but have been totally unable to get it to work in Windows. Its there showing all the correct HID devices but when I switch to the dedicated KVM channel I have video but no KBD/Mouse. Pondering next steps but may have to give up & use RDP.
Thank you for this! Short and clear tutorial.
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR HOW TO DO THIS FOR MONTHS!!! THANK YOU!!
That was my exact situation about a year ago, it is why I made this tutorial.
Can be this virtualizeed system moved on virtual disk for fully virtualization? This is good hint but in this case is I`m still depended on physical disk. The main magic of virtualization is in hoping between nodes and independence from "iron".
Take a snapshot backup of the VM and restore it to your main drive then you can delete the exisiting VM and remove the drive.
@@EverythingbySam I`ve tried it and it`s works.I had to change some details (bios, network card, graphic...etc) but my old system (win7) wa fully virtualized. I`m going to try virtualized Win 2019 server at customer side now.
@@poradnanet2005 congratulations mate, glad it all worked out. I have personally used the snapshot restore multiple times to move old installs from their original drive to a virtual partition.
@@EverythingbySam Interesting idea use snapshots instead of windows backup.I have FreeNAS as personal NAS at home but I can change it to Proxmox because I`m using Proxmox as primary virtual platform at customers.
Thanks for this video..it was new for me.
Its quicker to use disk2VHD to add to Proxmox. Yes you can use the physical HDD but with newer installs of Windows the product key will be compromised. Better to have an machine to boot to if something goes wrong. Also a good idea is to advise to back up your data before embarking on this adventure. Nice video. Subscribed.
@@8bitkid408 thank you for your suggestions and the sub.
The main scenario of this video was a Windows install you want to boot to recover a bit of data from but you don’t have a spare PC but you dohave Proxmox available.
I don’t really value Windows products keys as they are cheap and you can run Windows unactivated perfectly fine with only downside being the watermark which to me isn’t an issue at all especially on a virtualised version that I hope people aren’t using as a main system.
Backing up your drive isn’t so necessary as because we are passing through the entire drive with effecting the configuration it’s nearly impossible to corrupt the data or suffer any loss. As soon as you get the VM running you can run a snapshot backup or add it into your backup configuration.
At most the drive won’t boot but you can still recover data from it but I understand not everyone is that tech savvy.
@@EverythingbySam It's not tech savvy. It's showing someone an unsafe method without informing your viewers of the risk, which in my opinion is foolish.
@@8bitkid408 Good thing that is just your opinion then as nothing about it is “unsafe” as I did this method with several drives and never once compromised the information of the drive as you are not directly affecting the drive data by doing this method, you can still remove the drive and boot it in another system if you have one available to you.
Just because I did not show a backup option does not invalidate this method, Proxmox has inbuilt backup options.
I encourage you to make your own tutorial with your method instead of slightly alluding to what to do in a comment section of a different video.
Giving people more options is never a bad thing so I look forward to your video.
@@EverythingbySam You should still put a disclaimer on your videos. Just because we use due diligence doesn't mean everyone does.
@@8bitkid408 a disclaimer to say what exactly? I cannot cover all bases and everything you do in life contains some form of risk.
In terms of risk this method has basically no risk at all as you are not directly effecting the data.
Just because you may be overly cautious does not mean anyone needs to cater towards the very minute chance of an issue that may arise.
Thank you for this! If I virtualize an OEM Windows 11 install using your method, will the key and activation remain uncompromised? IE: New workstation that comes with Windows 11 Pro OEM -> Add new Proxmox boot drive -> Virtualize the OEM that came with the workstation.
No, the hardware ID will be different so you will need to reactivate it. Sometimes Windows remains activated after a hardware change but it is never consistent.
For me, I am new to Promox. I have an old(er) PC with Windows 7 that I would like to migrate to proxmox. I have created already a VHDX, as backup of the data. But what is the best way to get that one into proxmox. If I clone the hard drive to another SSD, put the SSD in proxmox and follow your instructions. After that I make a clone and switch off the virtual machine. After that I can make a new VM machine and import the clone?
@@arjan-nuts-gaming install the HDD into your Proxmox machine, follow all the steps to get it working then take a snapshot backup of the VM and restore the snapshot and remove the original VM that is using the HDD.
Thank you for this concise explanation. One question: why don't you install the VirtIO drivers in the natively booted Windows before virtualising it? Would Windows crash if it had these drivers installed without running in a VM?
That should work doing it that way as well but if you don’t have a spare PC to run up the Windows install this is easier.
The scenario I was working from when writing this is you only have the Windows drive.
@@EverythingbySam OK, I did it your way. Afterwards I could still boot Windows natively so it should work from the start.
Thanks so much! I am planning to do the exact same thing in the near future with my home-server installation of Windows Server 2022.
Awesome video..this was a great help. I was thinking about copying the entire hard drive and converting it or something crazy..but I knew there was an easier way..thanks.
You can also snapshot backup the drive and restore it to one of your other drives if you want to move it off your original drive
for me it just boots into grub, maybe because on my nvme there is linux and windows installed. how can I configure the vm to boot to windows
Amazing tutorial! Thanks for that!
If I may, I'd like to ask for a little help. My situation is a little bit different, but I think it's something many people would need. I have a Dell laptop with an NVME 2 TB Drive, with a licenced and activated Windows 11 preinstalled. I'd like to:
1. Partition the drive, leaving Windows on 1st partition and Proxmox on another one.
2. Install Proxmox on another partition alongside Windows 11.
3. In Proxmox, create a Windows VM using Partition 1 as the drive.
4. Configure whatever is necessary for Windows 11 to "think" they are still on the same place, activated and ready to go.
Premise: I would not mind if I could not boot Windows on bare metal ever again, only on a VM inside Proxmox. But if I could, it would be great!
Is it possible?
@@henriqueulbrichoficial definitely a unique situation that I don’t think many people would need at you stated but it is possible, I am just not going to cover it sorry.
There are much better ways of going about this and I cannot imagine a situation where this is the only option.
If your laptop supports 2 drives, install Proxmox on 1 and Windows 11 on the other, pass the Windows 11 drive through to Proxmox when you want to run Proxmox and boot the Windows 11 drive when you want to run it bare metal if you want a portable Proxmox server.
I personally would not partition a single drive to do this although it is possible.
Get yourself a cheap Dell or HP SFF PC to run Proxmox on that is an option for you and do not need portability.
@@EverythingbySam my scenario may be common, I think. I need to carry the Lab around as a demonstration to clients and as a teaching tool. So I need to make WiFi work, because it is indeed a mobile situation. I don't think I am the only one in need of this (there are teachers all over the world). I understand you won't go into it, and I thank you anyway for taking your time to answer me. After consideration, and with a lot of grief because I really wanted to use KVM and Proxmox, I went with Hyper-V. Which is a bummer.
@@EverythingbySam I also have the same situation in the process of figuring out how to do it, I might need to create a fresh windows installation, but I'm currently struggling to get a single partition on the same drive to be attached as a drive for my new VM, which is getting a bit trickier than I thought.
PS: I have proxmox and windows on the same drive but different partitions, and I'm also struggling with the wifi network adapter to work properly for the vm.
@ These are the types of issues that will come up when you try to do a setup like you are trying to achieve. You are making it as complicated as possible. I understand why you are trying to achieve it, but I would just never do it that way in the first place.
It is best to at a minimum, separate Proxmox and Windows on separate drives as even though you can pass through a partition, it is adding extra complication.
As for Wi-Fi drivers, you are stuck with whatever drivers Proxmox includes in their distro unless you can find a Linux driver for your specific Wi-Fi chip and add it to Proxmox manually.
Welcome back :)
Thanks mate! I appreciate the support.
Wonderful video, exactly what I wanted, thanks!
Just one thing: if I want to import multiple Nvmes or SATA Devices, do I need to -scsi2 or -sata2 for the second ones or is the -sata1 argument are regular term? In my mind it's the denomination that the VM config uses for the device and needs -sata1, -sata2, -sata3 for further devices... am I right?
Yup that’s correct, just increase the number for each additional drive otherwise you will mount the new drive over the top of the exisiting drive if you use the same number.
Great tutorial. Seems so easy. I have a windows 10 pro machine running docker with a dozen containers or so with plex/jellyfin tailscale etc.
Was looking for an easy way to convert that bare metal machine to proxmox vm as I don't want to re-setup all my configs.
I've got also some external drives which I share through samba. Can that work in the VM?
Yup, just connect them to your bare metal Proxmox system then pass them through to your Windows install VM with the commands I listed.
I personally would split the Docker containers away from the Windows install and move it to a Linux OS purely due to the amount of issues that randomly arise with Windows based system such as failed Windows update.
@@EverythingbySam I haven't found an easy way to migrate my docker containers from my windows machine to a Linux environment. I think it will take me weeks to manually rebuild them and I'm trying to avoid that.
@@tmaris copy Docker data to network share, attach network share to Linux environment, copy data to new location on Linux, recreate Docker containers.
You could install Portainer then export and import via the GUI.
@@EverythingbySam Thanks! Will try it out.
Thanks so much for asking this question, as I'm in very similar position, and to @EverythingbySam for responding. Were you able to get the external (Samba) shares working? How about Plex with hardware encoding/decoding for multiple remote streams?
Any notes on how existing opened ports / port forwards are managed? Do I just set them up again in the Proxmox OS and then pass that on to the Windows 10 VM? Related question: I have 5 internal & external HDDs connected via SATA & USB, respectively, that I would want to connect to my W10 VM. Is the process similar to what was shown in the video, and can they be mapped to their existing drive letters to avoid rescanning media for Plex & other apps?
any way to set the EFi partition from the drive to the EFI devices in the VM? maybe this isn't necessary but It is giving a warning
It will throw up a warning upon each boot but it’s not an issue.
Incase if we reboot PVE then there are chances it may boot in to Windows instead of pve. Could you please advice on this
@@alphaomega5017 that is an easy one. You haven’t set your boot order correctly in your motherboard BIOS boot menu.
This is a per motherboard setting so not so easy to make a video about as there are many different models with the setting located in different sections.
How do we revert back i mean how to unmount
@@alphaomega5017 either delete the VM or remove the drive from the hardware section of the VM settings.
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ERROR (too many arguments) ProTip
If your drive has a space between letters, replace with an underscore _
*SO: qm set 105 -sata1 /dev/disk/by-id/nvme-WDC PC SN730 SDBQNTY-XXX-XXX
*Should be : qm set 105 -sata1 /dev/disk/by-id/nvme-WDC_PC_SN730_SDBQNTY-XXX-XXX
Just thought I'd throw that out there.
how do i add the other drives with my stuff on them to the new vm?
Exact same command but change the SATA1 portion to SATA2 and so on for each drive
thanks for answer, i think i asked the wrong question, but i figured it out, thanks for answer :D@@EverythingbySam
Great video. I got it working but mine was not nvme or ata, it was usb. Now I am creating a backup and will restore the backup to a new VM so I can remove the drive. Do I need to do anything to undo the qm set command before or after erasing the original vm?
@@sp33d40 once you delete the VM that command is erased. That command essentially adds a disk to the VM so once the VM is removed so is that disk.
I found recently that you can also go into Hardware, select your disk and hit disk action up at the top to move just the storage to another drive
Succinct and on point. Thank you.
Once I have added my Win10 the way you describe, is there an easy way to move over the disk on the proxmox disks and remove the original wi dows disk afterwards?
Yep, take a snapshot backup and restore it as a different VM number. Then delete the original VM and remove the physical drive.
@@EverythingbySam elegant... I will try that! Thanks.
Hi, beautiful video! I´m new to proxmox and instead of dual boot all the time. Kan I passthrough my IGPU to this windows install drive in Proxmox? Thanks!
No you cannot passthrough your entire IGPU, only additional graphics cards. The virtual machine will utilise a portion of your IGPU by default for graphics though.
Ok, I understand. Hopefully it will be enough during the time it takes me to understand how to set up an LXC container for plex 🙂 Thanks for the reply!
Run an Ubuntu VM with Plex and Jellyfin like I have so you can pass a GPU through later if you want or you could install docker on the Ubuntu VM and run them in containers.
Bit more flexible in my opinion.
in your solution snapshot function It's available?
Yes you can take a backup of the virtual machine using the snapshot function and restore it to a different drive if you would like.
hi noob here, do I need a separate physical drive for each VM?
No, you can partition a small amount of your main Proxmox install drive or a secondary drive to each VM you want to create.
I have a pc with a single ssd. I want to go from Windows 11 to Proxmox and vm with windows 11. I only have an external hard drive as additional storage. How can I achieve this? Do i need to buy another ssd and install proxmox on that one?
Yes, that is the easiest way.
Could this work to transfer a windows key to proxmox?
This method basically wipes out your Windows key as unfortunately detects a new motherboard. You might have luck using your exisiting key to re-activate it but there is no guarantee.
Does it work on windows 11? Thanks!
@@maxheadrom3088 yes
thank you for the help!
Thanks for tutorial, but you skip most important part about uuid and setting disk serial for not loosing activation and etc.
@@nickpetrovsky I do not deem activation important for Windows to tell you the truth, they let you run it unactivated with really no consequence but a watermark and keys are cheap if that does concern you.
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Thanks mate, I appreciate it!
root@pve:~# qm set 101 -sata1 /dev/disk/by-id/nvme-WDC WDS240G20C-00AJM0_21244F802861
400 too many arguments
qm set [OPTIONS]
root@pve:~#
mine throwing this error, any help please.
@@navcid you have a space between WDC and WDS240. Copy it exactly how it is listed on the disks menu. Use an underscore _ if there are any spaces.
@@EverythingbySam thanks sam, it worked. much appreciated.