now while that's creating we can now create our virtual machine so up here click on create vm
i'm going to call this windows 11. i'm not going to bother with any of this stuff uh as well don't
really care about startup and shutdown order for the iso we've selected our iso so windows 11
and in the type we're going to go microsoft windows and then you have 1122 so leave that
as is and click next now you'll see because we selected windows 11 here that a lot of this
stuff is already checked for us so we don't even need to really worry about it okay efi storage
is going to ask us to select where we want that storage i'm going to say i want it on our vdisks
video location which we created is our share on trunas and tpm storage also going to put it in
that same location okay vdisk video pre-enrolled keys efi disk all of that is all good click next
uh one 32 gig disk i might just say 50 let's say 50 gig for example that should be fine go ahead
and click next for the cause why not let's give it six chords click next for the memory we'll say
8192 click next and we have our default uh interface card that's fine as well click next
and finish now there's one other thing we actually need to do so what we're going to do
is just stop that virtual machine and if you're using windows what you want to do is download
the vert i o drivers now there's an official page from proxmox that has it all laid out
and you basically download the iso add it in just like we did with any other iso and in here
we want to add that here so go to cd cd and dvd drive go to storage wherever you keep your isos
and if you look down here and it's provided by fedorapeople.org so you can grab the iso and
upload it to your server so i'll go to isos here and we'll go to upload select the file so vert i
o win and upload that once that's done go back to the windows 11 machine here and we're going
to add that cd drive go to the storage iso and we have our invert i o drivers and click create
we should have two cd drives one is for windows 11 the other one is full third io click start
and then quickly click console if you have any issues starting it make sure you go to options
and in the boot order and what we're going to do is make sure that the windows 11 iso starts first
click ok and then try and start it again now if you're like me and you try to start up the machine
and you got an error like this one here that's because of using ide where only there are two ide
devices when using q35 so what i did was actually remove the disk so i've stopped it remove the disk
we've made that an iscsi so if you go to add hard disk and you've got scsi there rather than ide
and we've got that in the correct location so it's on our new share
and the problem is though we have tpm and efi disks there as well so what we're going to do is
just remove that and let's recreate the windows 11 vm so we'll go windows 11 click next the iso
image we are selecting the windows 11 iso there the type microsoft windows and 11 the machine
q35 qmu agent we leave off tmp storage we'll go feed this video efi feed this video click next
under here vdisks video with a size of 50 gig and instead of ide we'll go scsi go ahead and click
next because we'll give them six eight gig of ram click next or uncheck ballooning device click next
and that should be it so go ahead and click next we won't start it after creating just finish up
and now in the hardware section we'll click add cd dvd drive storage is our iso and we want to
add the vert i o iso okay this is going to be important otherwise we're going to have trouble
installing the drive as necessary so click add so we have two drives there and we've got the disk
once you're happy go ahead and start it up it kind of have to be a little snappy here otherwise you
might miss the press any key option and if you do just stop the vm and start it again and try and
catch it and here we are so we're straight into the installer let's click next click install now
and we'll just wait for that to go now if you're familiar with windows you'd be used to this anyway
we will select i don't have a product key this is just for demo purposes only
we go to pro for example click next i accept click next we go custom and now as you can see it's not
going to pick up any of any of our disks that's fine click on load driver and browse and you'll
see vert ios there so drop that down go to amd64 and w11 and click ok you'll see that it picks up
the passthrough controller for us click next and just wait for it to install those drivers
then this allows us to select our v disk that we've created so that's fine click next here
and just wait for windows 11 to install now keep in mind that the v disk we're using for
this is located on our trunas virtual machine that we have running okay so we can now restart
it's restarting we're just going to click escape while it's restarting to escape into the menu here
and that will allow us to just quickly stop the virtual machine without it starting
now that it's stopped we'll go into the install files here and we'll remove the cd dvd drive for
the installer the next thing to check real quick is we go to options and we go to the
boot order just edit that and we just want to make sure that our disk is first which it is
and you can just leave the rest as is go ahead and start it up again as you can
see we haven't had any issues to do with our tpm chip or anything like that so proxmox is
taking care of that for us and all we had to do was select the template we didn't have to mess
around with any sort of command line or trying to trying to do any hacks to get that to work
it just works straight out of the box with the template that they provide us
so here we are windows 11 is starting up and it's going to take us through our usual install
now i'm going to just skip through this guys and cut to where we need it to because this is all