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Hey guys, so today I just wanted to make a video. Um, it's actually going to be part of a series. Here, first, we're going to be going into kind of installing Windows on Proxmox. Um, virtual machines or QEMU is, um, Proxmox is kind of like VMware ESXi or vSphere. It's also called, um, except it's more of like a Debian-based appliance that uses QEMU and a lot of fancy features under the hood. Um, it is not just QEMU, as you can see here. It's got a full web interface, you can cluster up systems, UFS, Ceph, all sorts of fun stuff.
Um, now, in this one, we'll only be setting up a virtual machine under or for Windows. Uh, this will be a Windows-based virtual machine that we will be able to access and manage, do all sorts of fun stuff with. Um, and in here, as you can already see, if we hit up this, we do have Windows 10 Enterprise, the ISO for Enterprise clients. But we also have Windows Server, I believe it's 2022, uh, one of the latest ones. Um, and then we got some other stuff in here that we'll, we'll use another time. Um, but first, we're going to start with that virtual machine.
So, going to get started with right-click, create a VM on this node, and we'll set the VM ID. Just leave it YT-windows and hit next. We'll select that ISO image, server eal, since we got that from Microsoft. Soft, you. Oh, and we'll also want to check this as well, which, yeah, seems about right, version 11 or SL222. And then we'll leave the graphics card, BIOS, all that stuff alone. And then I'm going to do a SATA, uh, drive, just for shits and giggles. Um, we'll leave it on the local LVM, which, yep, we got about 30, 304. And I am going to bump this up just a little bit to give it some extra storage for additional things such as IIS, Active Directory, um, all sorts of fun features there. We'll hit next. We'll give it one socket, but I'm going to give it four cores, since I believe the server in specific has 32, two, two CPUs, 16 cores, something like that. So we hit next. I'll give it 8,192 megabytes or 8 gigs of RAM. And then we'll leave our standard bridge device, since we only have one. No firewall, we'll configure that within the client and then hit next and finish. Give it a minute.
Okay, now before we do this, I probably could have checked it within the creation, but we are going to make another CD/DVD device before we start the VM. And this is going to come from our local storage, and the ISO image will be our virtio-win. These are all of our drivers for virtio, since Windows does not natively support, uh, Linux virtual environments like this. So I'll go ahead, do that, and hit add. And then from console, hit start. Let it boot up here. Oh, that's right. Okay, my, in my specifics, I have to go modify the processor, um, which this should just be host. Not sure why it's not host by default. Anyways, start that back up, please. There we go. We'll let this boot. Should load up pretty quickly here.
Okay, we'll let the server do its thing and boot up. Should be booting the ISO and prompt you for extra seconds here because it has Windows. And just like that, we could be prompted for the operating system setup. We'll hit next, since we are on the US keymap and English language, and install now. Now, you may get an error depending on the Windows version. This one most likely isn't going to detect any storage controllers or devices. So this is where we're going to need to pass in the drivers to it. I'm going to let this boot up.
Okay, we'll go ahead and go with the Data Center Evaluation, since it's got lots of the extra features. We'll go Desktop Experience as well. Hit next. I accepted Microsoft's license terms. We're only using this for evaluation. Install Microsoft operating system, server only. And we'll use that device from earlier, which strangely enough, it has picked up. Had a problem last time. We'll install this and see what happens.
Okay, and it may prompt you to restart. We just go ahead, let it do its thing, and it should restart into the hard drive that is on the system, not the ISO. It's basically partially finished install on Windows, um, on the hard drive. It'll finish from there. You can eject the install disc for Windows, but do not eject the drivers just yet.
Okay, and once the install finished, it should prompt you for this where you'll set up an administrative password for the server. For this, see, it may not allow me to do this since it is a common password, but I'll just set it the password for demonstration purposes. I highly recommend something insanely secure, since, well, this is going to be your Windows Server. Yep, I figured so. So I'll set it to a very magical password. Oh, I that up. There we go. Give it one moment here, and we should be ready to spin up. So it will prompt you to press Control Alt Delete. Which you do that. On some systems, you might get your login screen. I'm not sure if that was shown, but we'll try it anyways. Um, you can do under no VNC with this little arrow here, this little button with the A, and then you have all these right here. And this is going to be your Control Alt Delete. Click that. It'll have us log in, and it'll sign everything in, get everything up.
And just like that, we are set up with a brand new Windows Server install. And just approve it to you guys here, or it's going to the bed. Give a one moment. Yes, thank you for showing me. Now, please give me the start menu. Okay, yep. Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Data Center Evaluation. It is picking up the server CPU since we gave the, uh, what do you call it, the host CPU type, uh, through Proxmox. And we got all these settings here, installed RAM, which we may want to up. And I do just want to double-check one extra thing here, uh, performance. That's right. Okay, we're not using a whole lot, which is good to see. We'll keep that in mind. Um, we may want to up the CPU core count, but seems to be doing fine for the most part right now.
So now that we have Windows Server set up, we can go launch new services and new settings, all sorts of fun stuff. And I will show that in future videos. Um, keep in mind as well that this is an evaluation, so you will need a license key to use this or other methods. Um, that's entirely up to you how you choose to go about this. I will be sticking with the evaluation edition, which I believe is 60 days, 80 days, my apologies. Um, so through these 180 days, I'll continue making videos for you guys and showing you guys how to use Windows Server, getting it configured, getting it set up. Now, while I don't personally agree with Microsoft Windows and using it and all that stuff, uh, there is plenty of features in here that Enterprise may use. You may want to learn for yourself, whether it's setting up IIS, maybe you need Active Directory, maybe you need, you know, share Samba shares or SMB, whatever it may be. There's all sorts of fun little features in here that you do have.
So we'll close out of this and we'll go add roles and features, and I'll just show you guys what's, uh, what's available. So if we go R-based installation, yes, the server. We have Certificate Services, Domain Federation, Lightweight Directory, so LDAP stuff, um, if you don't need a full-fledged Active Directory system, Rights Management Services, Device Health Attestation, which I believe that's all Windows clients within your fleet need to double-check that one. If you do need to provide DHCP or DNS services to your network or multiple networks at a time, Fax Services, File and Storage Services, which I believe is where all the SAN, but SMB stuff is where you can configure it. Yeah, you have all sorts of replication, iSCSI targets, uh, you have the Host Guardian Service, Hyper-V if you want to virtualize VMs, Hypervisor Reception, you got network controller setup and configuration here. There is a lot you can do with this. And there is IIS, that web server, uh, you have Remote Desktop Gateways and Services, Server Updates, um, lots of fun stuff to deal with.
Now, one last thing we do want to configure before we get started fully with this and making new videos, go and minimize this and Device Manager. Now, through here, we'll need to update any of the drivers. Now, if we go back into Explorer here, you'll see virtio-win is installed, and these are all the drivers available for the system. We'll go ahead and install this, which should be the pack for all drivers. Next, accept. Yep, there's all the drivers right there. So it'll install it to the system, anything and everything we do need, that way you don't need to go track down what device is what. Yep, there's that PCI device that went away. Not only will installing these drivers fix a lot of problems, but it should smooth some things out as well.
And just to help manage it within the Proxmox system, we're going to go ahead and install the guest tools. We'll agree to that, and this should give you a little bit better display and management of the virtual machine within Proxmox. I'm not sure if we'll change it on this one, um, and we will reboot before we get fully into it, but it will modify the display and where it'll fully show instead of being this, I believe, 1024x768. So we'll go ahead and make one more reboot to the system and double-check on that.
Okay, now that the system is rebooted, we'll go ahead and send Control Alt Delete. The login. Oh, I can type my password correctly. Should let us in here in a few seconds. And just like that, we are now ready to go. And we can even personalize that display. So we'll set this to the standard 1920 by 1080. There it is. Keep settings. And just like that, now we have a full display, which this will kind of mimic what your typical monitor will be, 1080p. And from here, we'll be able to add new features, new whatever we want, as well as have a stable environment and system to use.
So if you guys do have any questions or concerns, feel free to leave them in the comments down below. I'll be sure to answer any and every question. And if I don't have a tutorial on hand, I'll try and get it to you guys. Uh, if you guys do have any questions, because I know that has been asked a couple of times, um, that last partitioning video that I did make, a couple of people asked me about expanding their drive size within FreePBX. So I made a video on that. Um, so once again, yeah, if you guys have any questions, concerns, feel free to hit me up and, uh, yeah, I'll try and get you what you can. So thank you, like, subscribe, don't blow your system up, I guess, and, uh, good luck.