Windows will install all needed drivers automatically, just the Intel NIC drivers for e1000 must be loaded from ISO (I got one big driver ISO from Intel containing all NIC drivers). After success (the wizard just copies the data, means I got a 80 GB disk but only 5 GB data on it so it was just a few minutes for the whole process on a gigabit network) just change the boot device to the hard disk and start the VM.Now enter all commands from the wizard on the source server tells you (configure network and request the copy process).Become root and run fdisk (fdisk /dev/sda/) to make sure that sda is here, exit fdisk with 'w'.On the Proxmox VE host, prepare a KVM guest, make sure you got a big enough IDE disk assigned (add 1 GB extra to be on the safe side) and also boot this KVM guest with the live CD and execute a shell.Now, boot the physical host with Clonezilla, go for beginner mode and select device - device and then remote, just follow the wizard.Prepare the source host, make sure that you have standard IDE drivers enabled (for WinXP/Win2003 use the mergeide.reg ( File:Mergeide.zip) ), for W2k I followed this link (solution 2 worked for me):.This method is fast, reliable and OS independent as it uses live CDs. Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) Migration of physical servers to Proxmox VE Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) Migration of virtual machines and containers from other hypervisors to Proxmox VE Physical-to-Virtual (P2V)įollow these steps to do a P2V migration and turn a physical machine into a Proxmox VE virtual machine that uses Qemu and KVM. There are various ways to migrate existing servers to Proxmox VE.

2.2.3.2 Move the image to the Proxmox VE Server.

2.2.2 Prepare location to save local image.

Use the Recommended security settings, choose your time zone, and continue. If you do not have a Windows 7 product key now, you can skip this page, but your Windows 7 virtual machine will have limited functionality. If you already input your product key and downloaded Windows 7 direct from Microsoft, you might not encounter this page. Next up is to input your Windows 7 product key.

Do not touch a key when prompted or you will return to the Install Now option, rather than letting the installer do its thing.Įventually, you will arrive at the Windows 7 Username set up, followed by the password creation page. Windows 7 will restart a few times during the installation process. After the installation process completes, your Windows 7 virtual machine will restart automatically. Go and make a cup of tea because this can take a moment. After that, the Windows 7 installation process will start. On the next page, select Custom, then select the virtual disk image drive created earlier.

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