Virtualize Windows 11 with Proxmox the Right Way!

Are you running Windows 11 yet?

"Microsoft recommends 2 or more cores, so I'm gonna give mine 24" 😂 Another great video! I always get excited when I see the notification pop up in Discord... Now I just need to get a new server that can handle Rancher, Plex, Zoneminder AND Windows 11

Dont fill out the password field and you dont have to answer the 3 stupid questions. And after finishing the installation yout can press CTRL-ALT-DEL and there you can set a password..

Thanks a lot @TechnoTim! Even after more than 2 years, this is still relevant. Biggest delta to Proxmox 8.1 is the integrated VirtIO CDDrive dialog within the VM creation wizard. Cheers from the EU!

In both your Windows 10 & your Windows 11 guides (Which I love, thank you for them) you miss 1 thing that is very important. It may be that it's a thing about old hardware (I'm on a 3rd Gen i7), I'm not sure, but when starting the VM to do the install I always have to make sure I'm in the console when it starts & fairly quickly hit a key to "Boot from disc" or else I have to reboot Proxmox because the VM won't stop. I consider this a fairly important step, but you've left it off both times, I assume because maybe it's not necessary if you are on more modern hardware, I'm not sure, but since the VM loads the Windows ISO as though it were an optical disc the Windows Images are designed to not boot automatically so you don't have to eject it midway through the install.

Tim, you are such a huge help. Thanks for this guide!

I just created a Win 11 VM in Proxmox a few days ago. I haven't had much time to mess around with it, but my initial impressions are positive. knocks on wood

This is exactly what I'm looking for! I want to virtualize a pc for streaming media and was torn between windows 10 and windows 11.

Nice guide! Would you mind considering making a video on how to add SSD cache or tiered storage in proxmox? I am having a hard time doing it correctly. Thanks!

few extra tips too: 1. if you run the other setup thats on the root of the virtio cd, it will install the qemu agent AND drivers, 2. if you select the graphics as virtio GPU, after you install the drivers or select them during the windows install, it will allow resizing of your screens properly in the html console

Haha! Your answer to my chat message at the end, love it! :D

Finally getting around to the Windows 11 thing. Thank you, as always, for the assist!

Thanks for the demo and walk thru, have a great day

3:18 You can skip a step. Right click the link > copy link address > Click download from URL button in proxmox > paste the link This will have your proxmox machine fetch the iso itself instead of you downloading and uploading it

What is your reasoning behind using VirtIO Block vs SCSi? Everyone else (including you) have posted tutorials indicating the use of SCSI as a most. What changed?

As always your videos are by far the best guides. Thank you

That's really useful, because even though I am not going to use a real Windows machine ever again once I moved away from Windows 10 on my newest rig, but I do want to test stuff in Windows, so it's useful to be able to virtualize it. What I am a bit puzzled about: shouldn't we have a separate TPM2.0 storage? If I happen to want to remove my hard drive, because I want a new blank one (or if I want to provision a system on demand), shouldn't I have TPM separate in order to not remove it, too? Great video though.

Thanks so much for making this video. I'm new to Proxmox and your video helped me a lot.

I've been waiting for this one!

Great tutorial! Thank you!