adding a windows drive

[rtoledo2002]

I did not find a NEWBIE portion in this Forum in here so here go my , ( appear like dumb newbie questions ).

Supposing I install Proxmox 7.4 by itself on it's own SATA ssd 60gb .
can I then add a existing drive that has windows 11 on it (nvme) bare metal ? or do I need to do that from scratch ? I'm a bit insane and sometimes do stupid shit with windows insider preview , and then regret not having my bare win11 installation ( ntlite ) stripped version I have compiled .

I also have Debian 12 rc1 on another drive SATA and last I have a fourth 10tb drive for windows. I love Debian but love to go the TESTING route and even SID at times, so I am always re-installing it, so I would love to have 2 or 3 Debian virtual boxes, besides having Win 11.

I have watched a bunch of videos about proxmox , but most " how to " videos always have a person using a virtual box on Linode or using some off the wall hardware doing it the cheap and obscure way.

anyways thank you for any suggestions on how I can do this , specially if I have to re-do win11 inside proxmox

Best Regards
Roman Toledo at yahoo or rtoledo at gmail

 

[Dunuin]

First, you should keep in mind that PVE is a headless type 1 hypervisor. You usually don't run it on the machine you want to use the guest OSs with. If you want that you would need to install some desktop environment packages to be able to use some VNC/RDP/SPICE clients. And then you are still using a remote connection and working with it will not feel as snappy as a bare metal.

Supposing I install Proxmox 7.4 by itself on it's own SATA ssd 60gb .
can I then add a existing drive that has windows 11 on it (nvme) bare metal ? or do I need to do that from scratch ?

What exactly do you mean?
You could have Win11, Debian 12 and PVE on the same machine and then choose what to boot when ech OS got its own disk.
Or do you mean that you want to run your existing Win11 as a VM? For that you could create a new VM and then either:
A.) use PCI passtrough to passthouch the NVMe disk into your VM or
B.) backup your win11 disk with the backup tool of your choice, create a new virtual disk with the same size and restore your backup on that empty virtual disk
But keep in mind that you will probably need to reactivate your Win as Win will only see that virtual hardware.

 

[rtoledo2002]

First, you should keep in mind that PVE is a headless type 1 hypervisor. You usually don't run it on the machine you want to use the guest OSs with. If you want that you would need to install some desktop environment packages to be able to use some VNC/RDP/SPICE clients. And then you are still using a remote connection and working with it will not feel as snappy as a bare metal.


What exactly do you mean?
You could have Win11, Debian 12 and PVE on the same machine and then choose what to boot when ech OS got its own disk.
Or do you mean that you want to run your existing Win11 as a VM? For that you could create a new VM and then either:
A.) use PCI passtrough to passthouch the NVMe disk into your VM or
B.) backup your win11 disk with the backup tool of your choice, create a new virtual disk with the same size and restore your backup on that empty virtual disk
But keep in mind that you will probably need to reactivate your Win as Win will only see that virtual hardware.

So I should not install Proxmox on my fast machine ? guess that's the end of that idea. back to baremetal . I had that little voice telling me, NO , you can't just add a win11 harddrive , it all has to be virtual.

thank you so much