BIOS settings for Fujitsu ROK Windows Server

[ahost]

Hello
I bought Fujitsu TX1330 M4 server hardware and Windows Server 2022 Essentials (ROK for Fujitsu only). When installing directly on hardware the setup reads BIOS and install goes on. But on Proxmox there is a message that Fujitsu hardware is required and it stops.
I was trying to add some smbios1 vaules (in base64) but still no success.

On VMware ESXi there is an option to passthrough VM BIOS to hardware BIOS. Is there such option in Proxmox?

Please help with solving this problem and have ROK virtualized.

Regards
Pawel

 

[_gabriel]

install regular Windows Server 2022, iirc, then enable Essentials as it's a role now.
activation is done with slic. you need make slic.bin from pve shell
then add args acpitable /path/to/slic.bin
works fine here on 2022 Standard.
search for detailled examples

 

[mikecorw]

Hello,
I have the same problem installing Windows server 2022 Essentials on a Fujitsu TX1310M5 server.
"This installer is designed to load only on Fujitsu systems. Please verify with Fujitsu that your hardware is correctly configured for this software."
Can someone please help?

 

[_gabriel]

as already said,
install regular Windows Server 2022 then use your Essentials key to enable Essentials SKU.

 

[mikecorw]

Cannot be activated with Essentials key..
I tried it.

 

[_gabriel]

OK not activated, but is it accepted and is edition switch to Essentials ?

 

[mikecorw]

Not accepted. It is still marked as Windows Standard

 

[devaux]

Fill in the parameters from the command

dmidecode 2.11 | less

into your Windows-VM. Then it's "mirroring" your hardware information.

 

[_gabriel]

Not accepted. It is still marked as Windows Standard

it's excepted marked as Windows Standard.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-essentials/get-started/get-started
For activation tied to your motherboard, you can try @devaux post , nice if it's enough.
Another way (which I used) is passthrough the SLIC table