Virtualize Windows 11 with Proxmox the Right Way!

[@TechnoTim]

Are you running Windows 11 yet?

[@xbxa7x]

not yet, that TPM requirement is a killer

[@Rmly]

Not yet!

[@xbxa7x]

@AstroCat im with you on this one, I plan on upgrading to 12 Gen intel so im trying to get mentally prepared to be forced into it

[@scott7699]

never plan on using it.

[@hacked2123]

Yep! In ProxMox before this video landed 😜

[@Bogomil76]

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..

[@chromerims]

Nice reminder 👍

[@AndrewWilliamsFW]

"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

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks for watching!

[@Krazy92]

The way he smiled after he said that cracked me up lmao.

[@LostOnTheLine]

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.

[@LeftBeef]

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

[@TechnoTim]

For sure! That was one of my tips in my Proxmox 7 video! I should have used it here!

[@kevinrtres]

Great tip - thanks!

[@si458]

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

[@arneisaksen7538]

Great tips!! THX a lot!

[@Ralphxxxx]

I'm getting an error when installing the qemu agent. How did you get it installed?

[@chromerims]

virtIO GPU excellent tip 👍 Installer w qemu . . . also a great tip.

[@charliemortonmusic]

how do you do the 'other' setup?

[@thomasmartha4673]

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!

[@jamesklinger1039]

You need to add even though you mentioned in the beginning of the video that you need to have Proxmox 7 it needs to be 7.0-13 i had 7.0-11 and that version does not have the TPM option in VM creation.

[@dodgecrickets7862]

How do I get 7.0- 13? Do I need to reinstall proxmox completely?

[@blackthebanner]

@@dodgecrickets7862 click your host in the GUI panel > updates > upgrade tab in this menu

[@ms-ddos]

You also have to have TPM enabled in your actual PC hardware BIOS for the TPM option to appear in Proxmox.

[@atwellwilliams2400]

@@blackthebanner when I try that, it just runs and tells me my system is up to date, even though it still says 7.0-11 in the banner. Do I need to have a subscription to get it to upgrade to 7.0-13. Also, I just downloaded PVE yesterday. Why isn't it already the latest version?

[@RaidOwl]

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*

[@seths1997]

7:50 perfect...install windows 11 here by selecting the windows 10 driver which is a red hat controller to run on a hypervisor built on debian...got it 👍

[@Linux4theMac]

WTF!… I had no idea VM tutorial could be this pleasant. I wish I had found this channel a few years ago.😢❤😂

[@bobsodman5274]

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

[@TechnoTim]

Anytime!

[@MrGambit714]

Good video. Thanks, Tim just got proxmox set up on my machine and created a Windows 11 Vm following your instructions. This was very helpful.

[@Mzansi74]

Thanks for a great video. I using Windows 11 on Proxmox to test a number of things. I really appreciate all your videos!

[@MichaelBehrnsMiller]

Dude you have to edit out the part where you hit NEXT by accident BEFORE you install the nw driver. I saw you click it, I clicked it (before adding NW driver) and the whole process went for a while then bricked when it could not find a network driver and at that point, since it was a proxmox QEMU failure, you can't stop the VM and everything (yes your entire proxmox system) is borked, you have to reboot the whole thing to get that pesky Windoze vm to stop. Ha. UPDATE: I waited a bit and was able to kill the VM by opening the console and using the NOVNC shutdown button... then Shift-F10 to open command prompt... type OOBE\BYPASSNRO, then it reboots and lets you skip the network stuff, and you can update the driver and do a windows update. sigh! Other than that, VERY HELPFUL video, thanks much!

[@TechnoTim]

If ever the case just type in quit in the monitor section of your vm. No need to reboot the host

[@audigex]

I'm not an "I hate change!" kinda guy, but I never upgrade to a new full version for a while - there are always bugs and changes, I'm happy to let the early adopters work them out for me and then join them later.

[@TechnoTim]

I hear ya! I enjoy the ride!

[@AlonsoVPR]

This one became the GO-2 tutorial for creating W11 vm!! Thank you for the content Tim!! earlier "pandemic" subscriber in here :D

[@robertbishop7078]

Just made a new Proxmox server with updated hardware. Installed Windows 11 on it thanks to this video. Due to Windows 11 I have moved to POP OS as my main desktop, using Cinnamon. I am dual booting. A few months back I upgraded 10 to 11, but am very rarely in that side. This Win11 VM is to have a common VM regaurdless of wich machine I am using, Main desktop, mentioned before, or my laptop running Ubuntu. I plan on using Tailscale to have the VM accessible where ever I am. I was using Virtualbox on both Windnows and POP OS pointed to the same VM. Something happened in the last month, the Windows side has the VM running dog slow. This happened Sep 2023, when last I tried to upgrade to Win 11, I did reinstall Win 10 at that time. This time, I am moving forward, with a VM in Proxmox instead of Virtualbox. Also, one less system to update, 2 if you count the VM on my laptop.

[@manuelmontalvo2007]

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?

[@wilwad]

Thank you very much. We just moved to Proxmox from ESXi. Loving Proxmox. Had an issue with Windows 11 boot loop after install. Could not shutdown the VM ~ had to kill -9 the vm in order to delete it and start over. Changed CPU type to Default and not to Host. Windoze 11 now installed.

[@includenull]

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

[@TechnoTim]

Haha! I’m scared too!

[@JustaFan-ss2yy]

Just to add one more bit of useful info. I'm running Proxmox version 8.1.4 and they added a new option under the OS tab when creating the VM that lets you add an additional drive for VirtIO drivers right from the start! So we can skip the additional step in this video of adding this additional drive.

[@MrTechnician_]

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.

[@pisiiki]

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!

[@martyg2333]

Still works flawlessly on Promox VE 8.2.4 two years later. Thank you for the tutorial. Liked and sub'd.

[@mpedrozax1]

Thank you for spelling the whole installation procedure. I would have guessed wrong a lot which would have left to a lot of frustration. One thing I didn't find in your tutorial was that you have to upgrade Proxmox to 7.0-13 before you would see TPM 2.0. Procedure is online but it was a big hurtle. Now I'm successfully running win 11 on proxmox.

[@Breto151]

Where did you get 7.0-13 from?... I have done all the updates but I am only on 7.0-11

[@grainedlotus5153]

@@Breto151 Same

[@alainterriault7492]

@@Breto151 I think 7.0-13 is only available in pve-no-subscription .. I assume it will eventually be ported to the Enterprise repository

[@FooLProoFMPLS]

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

[@nodd85]

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

[@LampJustin]

5:00 one small adjustment. It should be SCSI, since the Virtio controller set on the page before is a paravirtualized SCSI controller. By selecting VIRTIO Block you selected an older method, which I believe doesn't allow for hot adding storage or at least drives

[@vincenzogiusto3328]

Would VirtIO Block be slower (or decrease some performace) than SCSI in this case?

[@LampJustin]

@@vincenzogiusto3328 i don't think that would be the case, but you never know unless you tried ;)

[@VoklavTube]

2 or 4 = 24

[@TechnoTim]

Already have one on GPU passthrough!

[@B_r_u_c_e]

Thank you. The w11 drivers worked fine for me in 2024-Nov.

[@emulo1437]

I'm very excited to follow this tutorial and try this for myself. Already virtualize win10 in proxmox 7. I'm a daily Linux user and I switch to Windows whenever I must for certain applications and games. Compatibility is priority for me, so I'd need to thoroughly test win11 before doing the update for real. Time to "run, and install: windows 11" By the way, Tim, my divergent neurology very much appreciates the consistent cadence in your voice when you say "run, and install: Windows 11". Sincerely. 🙂

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@jaygreentree4394]

Incase anyone missed it: you will need to be in advanced mode when you create the win11 vm.

[@chromerims]

'Advanced mode' 👍 creating VMs. Fascinating to start mentally tracking what other YT tech creators do with that flag. Kindest regards, friends.

[@HaloWolf102]

How would I go about doing that?

[@qoutwest]

Great video as always Tim!

[@TechnoTim]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@bradleydiggs]

@5:12 Tim's smile when he says "Now, Microsoft recommends 2 or more cores, ....so I'm gonna give mine 24." Haha!

[@ystebadvonschlegel3295]

Me running proxmox on a tinypc with total of 8 cores - "must be nice" LOL

[@minimo-studio]

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

[@saulgoodman1390]

Been a life-long Windows user but to be honest, I think I'm done with it. The amount of invasive tracking and data collection is staggering. Next stop is Linux for me

[@darthkielbasa]

Thank you sir. Just spun up my first vm in proxmox. Gonna explore GPU passthrough now.

[@AdmV0rl0n]

Tim, I really like your stuff, its top notch. You deserve more subs!

[@TechnoTim]

I appreciate that!

[@dillonhansen71]

@@TechnoTim I thought you had alot more subs... you are my go to for proxmox everything. I love the content, keep it up, you are awesome!

[@rampart1234]

I'm not sure leaving key pieces of information out is top notch. IE leaving out how to update to 7.0.13. You don't have TPM without updating but it is never shown how to update.

[@ryanlea750]

@@rampart1234 Pretty sure he has a video on how to update it, pretty sure I have seen that.

[@rampart1234]

@@ryanlea750 I don't recall a mention of a video showing how to update.

[@chrisumali9841]

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

[@Prj102]

Just did this the other night. Great video

[@TechnoTim]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@denniskluytmans]

Dude, great guide as always

[@TechnoTim]

Appreciate it!

[@newbehere9461]

Can you please do a video on setting up the audio or how to get the audio working for different OS's on Proxmox. A big thank you in advance as I'm new to all this VM stuff/world and have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

[@bitbubz]

Hi, I'm getting a failed to start Boot0001 "UEFI QEMU DVD-ROM QM00003"

[@EddyGurge]

I've been waiting for this one!

[@Timichaud]

your video is 4 days to late for me haha already found info to do it but it runs like crap because I messed some parameters so with the magic of virtualisation I will trash my VM and try again with your nice video! thank you very much. its very clear

[@Nico-Thiry]

Hi I am learning Proxmox and I could not boot on Windows 11, your video helped me a lot thank you very much :)

[@Abrin32]

Thanks TT. I used this guide to install windows 10, waiting until after the install to enable the network drivers allowed me to skip windows horrible mandatory requirement that I connect it to an account. Next up, GPU passthrough.

[@AlexThatTechGuy]

Need to virtualize Windows 11 to run BlueIris on. thx for this. The TMP was the part i wasn't sure about.

[@consecratedtech]

This is wonderful. With so many updates that have happened, would you update this? it would be so helpful as I like to follow proxmox specific recommendations but they are not directly clear on running windows (or they have reverted / changed info recently)

[@CloudContext]

Great tutorial! Thank you!

[@chromerims]

Very nice 👍 fTPM is neat-o! 5:04 -- Is 'discard' for SSD storage too resource hungry? Noticed that it wasnt enabled. 5:18 -- Rather helpful to hear that it is Ok to leave CPU type as default/kvm64. Thank you. At the end, would we have installed QEMU guest agent? Kindest regards, neighbours.

[@deleatur]

I watched this video with great interest. I always wanted to see Proxmox in action (my HW can't support it). Great job! Thx! 👍😄

[@mechy2k2000]

You could buy a dell optiplex 390 for around 100 dollars and load proxmox on it. Or just about any old desktop should be able to run proxmox

[@tektech440]

I love windows 11 on my primary PC. the center task bar is nice with the ultrawide monitor althtough there is room for improvement. I don't need windows 11 virtualized though... but I like to have a windows server instance installed

[@cascan07454]

Windows 11 is a new OS in the same way that 8.1 was a "new" OS when compared to Windows 8. Windows 11 is just the Windows 10 Sun Valley UI update with new name and some upgrade requirements.

[@jeremytaylor6040]

Amazing video! Thanks so much!

[@TechnoTim]

Glad you liked it!

[@IvanRosaT]

Thanks for the video, I'd like to add that the skip the microsoft account button might had dissappear from the OOBE, if this is the case , shift + F10 > this will bring CMD > type: OOBE\BYPASSNRO This wil restart the system and allow you to skip

[@kieran.stafford]

Like a lot of your videos, you tell us that you are choosing certain settings, but never tell us why. For example, why are you setting the machine type to q35? What does that mean / do?

[@johnknaggs4063]

Thanks Tim - Your videos are great and they help heaps.

[@TechnoTim]

Glad to hear it!

[@rawa9891]

Fantastic job Tim! I have been contemplating about installing Proxmox for some time now and the BIG desktop was predestined to run multiple systems anyway. I tried the MS sub system method, but didn't like it and it was too messy while making mistakes. The only thing I'd like is to be able to use the Image I made with Macrium Reflect of the original Windows 10 and restore it into this Proxmox version. Is that even possible? I will be experimenting the next few days with this topic. Anyway, thanks for saving me AGAIN. Keep up the good work! Q: Which nut is worth the most? A: Cash-ew. Q: What kind of nut was on the moon? A: An astronut. Q: How do you catch an elephant? A: Act like a peanut!

[@bananafartmanmd8775]

late to the party. this is definitely possible! did you ever get it working?

[@rawa9891]

@bananafartmanmd8775 sorry 😞, I've been so busy with Proxmox and building new Truenas machines that I just haven't had time.

[@Franchyze923]

Trying to do this in 2023 and keep getting BdsDxe: failed to start Boot0001 "UEFI QEMU DVD-ROM QM00003" ..... Anyone ever run into this?

[@Franchyze923]

welp this is slightly embarrassing... during the initial boot up there was a message saying to press any button or key to continue and I wasn't hitting it lol. To be fair it was displayed for a very short amount of time. Once I pressed a button Windows loaded just fine

[@alttabby3633]

@@Franchyze923 Bro THANK YOU!

[@Ddraig62SPD]

Worked like a charm! Thx

[@igordasunddas3377]

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.

[@thomasglaser3513]

Very fine explanation - thanks a lot for this ;-)

[@DesignCreators]

hi can you please answer my question, I would like to have windows 11 and mac OS in one computer, I have a 1TB SSD right now I have windows 11, so can I create a partition for proxmox and install it on it, will the data on my windows 11 get lost?

[@Handy-Handy]

Absolutly great, I do it more or less the same way.. and im so freaking tensed when the android apps (WSA) are comming

[@msinfo32]

I was just thinking of this! Amazing timing. Any chance you could make a video about creating a windows 10/11 vm video with OVMF and KVM? That'd be an amazing video! Thanks

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks for the idea!

[@ujjobbagya]

@@TechnoTim If you make that video please mention Intel's GPU virtualization (GVT-d). With that, I was able to pass the Intel onboarded IGP through the VM with working HW acceleration and OpenGL. This thing makes the difference, cool stuff.

[@buenology]

Very interesting video, thank you. - I am now a Subscriber.

[@votezoidberg2020]

Followed this exactly, however on boot it tries to Start PXE over IPV4 and then start HTTP Boot over IPv4 and at the top it just says Press any key to boot from CD or DVD but that doesn't work.

[@judebreheny3925]

Same :(

[@phlo2009]

Hi Tim, thanks for this a great tutorial. I do have a question that is Proxmox capable to virtualize the the TPM hardware on my server for the guest OS instead of using an emulator?

[@johnu730]

Perfect concise explanation ;-)

[@edmundzed9870]

I totally new to proxmox and after a few hickups it is now running, sort of. Problem: Now don't have sound and no audio device. Suggestions are appreciated.

[@YannMetalhead]

Good guide, thank you!

[@carloscarval]

Hello Tim. I've followed your guide. However my Windows 11 VM is unstable. From time to time I get a blue screen error, and then it reboots. It already happened while playing with GPU passedthrough, with no GPU passthrough, using VNC and even RDP. I've tried changing disk to scsi, ide and even sata. And the same happened. I've searched online, but hasn't seen anything really useful. At devices manager, I see two unknown devices with no drivers installed, looking at the devices, they show something like "UsbStub". Don't know if it could be related. Have you seen this scenario anywhere? Have any idea about what coult it be?

[@pbear06]

Hey, I noticed you' r using Line too 😊👍

[@davechristoffersen6633]

You are a legend Tim well done sir

[@JanchrapustaTk]

I haven't tried this yet, but with a passed through GPU and USB might be a way to run windows 11 on unsupported hardware.

[@DiomedesDominguez]

So you have all that information in the description but not a single link of the ones you used? Neat!

[@TechnoTim]

The ones, what? Not sure what you mean by "the ones you used" ?

[@DiomedesDominguez]

You don't share in the description the link's VirtIO iso

[@TheDdddd999]

I probably not upgrade to windows 11. l will just wait a year or 2 for proton to be ready and then get off windows

[@TheDdddd999]

@Kodaology for the android apps you can just use an emulator

[@crazycorg1]

Why not get off of it now and switch to Linux? You can always just run a vm on Linux for anything that still needs windows

[@TheDdddd999]

@@crazycorg1 gaming is still hard on linux and i dont have the time to tinker too much with it

[@Shoulon]

I'll probably give Windows 11 a run after android apps are out of "Insider" builds and on official builds

[@GapYouIn2]

installed w11 today and checked the ceph pool i put it in, shows 33.72GiB usage(OS shows 28.0GB).. Now that is after it booted up and i had installed the virtio agent/drivers ( nothing else ). Note for other, suggest using the Virtio-gpu video driver so you can change resolution. Also, load the network drivers like he does otherwise you have to do the bypass thing which is a pain. Great vid!

[@balk0vic]

I'm a linux user since late 90s, I can test now whether it finally worth switching to windows.

[@WatDoino]

Thanks for the video. Is there a way to change the resolution in the consolve view? It used to be in Windows 10 that we could choose a virtIO display device driver but now this option isn't there anymore.

[@rudypieplenbosch6752]

Yes, this 1024*768 resolution is not very nice

[@chriswiggins3896]

Techno Tim, aka the goat of IT!

[@Jdmc8t4]

Hey bro, keep getting this...dsDxe: failed to start Boot0002 "UEFI QEHIJ DVD-ROH QH00003 " from PciR00t /Pci : Time out... im using a 7th Gen i5 mini PC.. can you help please?

[@krdesigns]

I believe we will need new video since Proxmox 7.1 change the setting and its now support Windows 11. My previous windows 11 installation broken upon promox 7.1 upgrade.

[@panoshountis1516]

Awesome video, thank you. Just wondering, in case the host CPU does not conform with the Windows11 minimum requirements, what selection do I make on the CPU Type?

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you! I think you can use Proxmox's new CPU type in 8, that should suffice!

[@peteradshead2383]

I'm on proxmox version 7.0-11 and it doesn't have the tpm option , I guess it may be upgrade or reboot time. Look like you need the latest version 7.0-13 for it to work ? , and my 7.0-11 is upgrade and rebooted and still no tpm option . Forgot to add the no-subscription repository , now on 7.0-13 and got the tpm option

[@gam3955]

Thanks, you saved me 👍🙏✌️

[@thegreyfuzz]

Thanks, I've been trying to figure this out for a couple days, adding the repo worked for me as well!

[@QuantumKurator]

Great vid! Very helpful.

[@TechnoTim]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kevinrtres]

Thanks for the interesting video - great info! I like the little tongue in cheek style....🤣

[@loubloom153]

Very informative. I have question what is the disk and memory performance hit by using Proxmox vs Baremetal windows 11?Any idea Thanks in advance

[@jart122]

Is possible for you to make a video on how to enable intel turbo box on proxmox, well if is even possible. I couldn’t find any guides.

[@DanielRolfe]

I've stopped using virtio-block as it doesn't work with discard and fstrim which blows big time for backups and their size / sparsify Controller as virtio-scsi and disk just as scsi, turn on discard, most OS will run fstrim every week but to test if it's working run fstrim -a -v You can convert an existing vm disk over also, just unmount the disk in proxmox from the vm, it shows as unused, re add as scsi , lastly don't forget to change the boot device from virtio to scsi

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks for the tip!

[@EnzoAlphaville]

Hello. If I understand well, for example, installing a windows 10 VM in the proxmox with off board video card passthrough the HDMI of the video card will work fine for a send the audio and video to a receiver like a dedicated windows machine already do? Thanks in advance!

[@jackmclane1826]

You can patch out the hardware requirements from the installer iso.

[@fourex59]

Tim, I was successful in loading Proxmox 7 natively , onto my laptop, a Lenovo Yoga 730. However, I cannot get either Wi-Fi or a USB ethernet adapter (USB C hub) running. Can you tell me the best way to do this? I imagine this is a driver issue. I don’t know who to contact but I haven’t been able to find anyone to help me. Thanks!

[@MadChristianX]

the new tastbar is great for me because i tag all my favorite programs direct to it since windows 10. feels a bit more like macos now

[@TechnoTim]

Yes!

[@Serpher1]

Good thing that hacks do work with earlier Proxmox versions than 7.x

[@ewenchan1239]

In this video, you've shown how to virtualise Windows 11 using Proxmox 7. Question for you - how do you change the screen resolution? I am running Proxmox 7.3-3 using this "guide/tutorial" and I was able to finally get it up and running (it took a while), but now the display is stuck at 1280x800 resolution and there doesn't appear to be a way to change that (at least not through the normal means/methods). Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[@idan678]

Does windows 10 work effortless on proxmox? or i need to download the driver things too