Converting A Bare Metal Windows Installation To The Proxmox New Way (P2V)

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[fourex]

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!

[joachimdeussen]

I wonder what is the old way? Each of your videos is tagged with "proxmox the new way"...

[_FLAK_]

SCSI is so that you no longer NEED the bare metal drive correct?

[TimeWatch]

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?

[DJReverb]

What happens to your Windows license activation?

[ewenchan]

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. ;)

[BMac]

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)

If it wasn't, it's worth making a video on how to make a copy "bare metal" in Windows. 👍👏

[mirusev]

Hey, thanks for the video :) re:"command that's going to be in the description", where is the command? :)