Virtualize Windows 11 with Proxmox the Right Way! 

Are you running Windows 11 yet?

"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

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..

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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*

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 👍

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Just did this the other night. Great video

2 or 4 = 24

Great video as always Tim!

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.

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?

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

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

I've been waiting for this one!

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

Dude, great guide as always

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!

Good guide, thank you!

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

Worked like a charm! Thx

Amazing video! Thanks so much!

Great tutorial! Thank you!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Perfect concise explanation ;-)

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

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

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. 🙂

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

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.

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.

You are a legend Tim well done sir

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)

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

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!

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.

Great vid! Very helpful.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Techno Tim, aka the goat of IT!

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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?

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.

Don't see the need for Win 11. I have software that is held hostage on Win 7 and still working on moving it.

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.

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

Thanks for what you do

I tried this and realize its too much of a hassle, and ending up building a itx gaming pc

24 cpu cores for Win 11 VM !!😮, Also what happens if your Proxmox server CPU is not supported? Thanks for this excellent video.

Thank you!

Top, thanks.

Great, was struggling with this. Followed this and now TPM detected. Thank you.

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?

Win11's trying to catch up with MacOS on the TPM/Q35 change.. Guess I'm better off using Prox7 given it needs the TPM feature... Maybe Mr Sherlock might have some advice for 6 if he's into anything beyond Fruit like OS's on QEMU😏

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.

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

Unbelievable that 64GB RAM is recommended just to run an OS. I installed it with 32GB and it ate 96% of it before I even did anything. Talk about bloatware.

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

Can we Virtualize Macos with Proxmox, how ?

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

Thank You works 🚀 but Win11 on this machine, needs to be auto boot of this vm/pc? // as a main machine only

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.

I couldn't install win11 when my cpu was set to the AES type, I selected "host' and it installed.

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