Hello Harvey. Great video! I have a bare metal Win 11 machine that I would like to convert over to a Promox VM. However, I don’t want to open the machine up and use a sata adapter to copy it over to Proxmox. Can you suggest another way that I could move the physical to virtual without taking my machine apart? Thanks!
So, just to be clear though, the virtual machine would still be using the physical drive that Windows is installed on? What if we want to virtualize the drive as well?
What if your bare metal Windows is on an NVME drive? I tried passing it through as a PCI device but Windows crashes every attempt to boot (probably needs those drivers)
Two things: The virt-io drivers DO work with Windows 7, but you need an OLDER version of the virt-io drivers ISO (I think that I used version 0.187 on my Windows 7 VM). And that leads me to the second thing -- *I* am still running Windows 7. Actually, I still have one VM that's still running Windows XP Pro, **32-bit**. I don't use that VM for much, but I DO still use it. Daily. (Its nice when the whole OS only needed about 512 **MB** of RAM.) Windows 7 is nice because the virtio NIC drivers -- Win7 thinks that it's a 100 Gbps NIC that's installed. So if you want free/cheap 100 Gbps networking - that would be one way to achieve that. ;)
@@HSVEOCT Correct. It operates (at least in theory), much in the same way as a virtual bridge and/or a virtual switch. But what this also means is that VMVM communication can (potentially) happen at 100 Gbps as well as VMhost comms. (Windows 10 and above, the virtio NIC driver shows up as a 10 Gbps interface. Still fast, but of course, not as fast as having a 100 Gbps NIC show up in Windows 7.) So if you have (a lot) of comms going between VMs and/or between host and VMs -- that can be useful. But if you are going between servers, then no - since it's not a physical 100 Gbps link. (But in my case, because I DO have a Mellanox ConnectX-4 dual port 100 Gbps Infiniband card in the server, so I do and can get 100 Gbps on my Infiniband network via physical hardware. Mine runs through a Mellanox MSB-7890 externally managed 36-port 100 Gbps IB switch.)
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Hello Harvey. Great video! I have a bare metal Win 11 machine that I would like to convert over to a Promox VM. However, I don’t want to open the machine up and use a sata adapter to copy it over to Proxmox. Can you suggest another way that I could move the physical to virtual without taking my machine apart? Thanks!
Run disk to vhd on your windows machine
You can use clonezilla to do a P2V cold migration
@pakhong123 thanks for the info I will tinker
So, just to be clear though, the virtual machine would still be using the physical drive that Windows is installed on? What if we want to virtualize the drive as well?
That’s upcoming on the next video
I wonder what is the old way? Each of your videos is tagged with "proxmox the new way"...
The old way is bare metal, this means that you don’t get the advanced features like snapshots, backups etc. so I call it the old way.
What happens to your Windows license activation?
You should still be activated :)
What if your bare metal Windows is on an NVME drive? I tried passing it through as a PCI device but Windows crashes every attempt to boot (probably needs those drivers)
Use the same commands featured
SCSI is so that you no longer NEED the bare metal drive correct?
Oh that part about virtual disk. Its been 10 months since you posted this. Do you have that video yet?
Two things:
The virt-io drivers DO work with Windows 7, but you need an OLDER version of the virt-io drivers ISO (I think that I used version 0.187 on my Windows 7 VM).
And that leads me to the second thing -- *I* am still running Windows 7.
Actually, I still have one VM that's still running Windows XP Pro, **32-bit**.
I don't use that VM for much, but I DO still use it. Daily.
(Its nice when the whole OS only needed about 512 **MB** of RAM.)
Windows 7 is nice because the virtio NIC drivers -- Win7 thinks that it's a 100 Gbps NIC that's installed.
So if you want free/cheap 100 Gbps networking - that would be one way to achieve that. ;)
Right okay, the 100GB/s networking is between VMs though but not physical hardware
@@HSVEOCT
Correct.
It operates (at least in theory), much in the same way as a virtual bridge and/or a virtual switch.
But what this also means is that VMVM communication can (potentially) happen at 100 Gbps as well as VMhost comms.
(Windows 10 and above, the virtio NIC driver shows up as a 10 Gbps interface. Still fast, but of course, not as fast as having a 100 Gbps NIC show up in Windows 7.)
So if you have (a lot) of comms going between VMs and/or between host and VMs -- that can be useful.
But if you are going between servers, then no - since it's not a physical 100 Gbps link.
(But in my case, because I DO have a Mellanox ConnectX-4 dual port 100 Gbps Infiniband card in the server, so I do and can get 100 Gbps on my Infiniband network via physical hardware. Mine runs through a Mellanox MSB-7890 externally managed 36-port 100 Gbps IB switch.)
That’s cool
Hey, thanks for the video :) re:"command that's going to be in the description", where is the command? :)
Check the blog post link in the description.
@@HSVEOCT blog post link in the description not there
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@@HSVEOCT I am mostly interested in Windows virtualization, on your site it is only about macOS...
Our Proxmox services offer windows services too: hjssolutions.uk/proxmox
What if it is on a truenas core vm
That’s for another video ;)
If it wasn't, it's worth making a video on how to make a copy "bare metal" in Windows. 👍👏
I will sort that too
@@HSVEOCT It's my dream, make a backup of Windows and import to VMs, as easy as CCC :) So finger crossed.
Of course