Migrate VM's from Ver 5 to 8.3 - For Windows 11 upgrade!

[VMhomebox]

Yes that is a bit of a gap, but as a home user I have not really had a need to switch things up, until the whole Windows 10 thing.

I have two Windows 10 VM's that I would like to move from my old Proxmox Server and to my new one. Both VM's will fit on a flash drive to move from one to another and no I do not wish to add both to the same cluster.

My grand master plan is to keep the activated copies of Windows 10 and then upgrade them to Windows 11.

So um yea, any advice?

 

[VMhomebox]

So, I am doing an update.

After a bit more searching I did find that I can use WinSCP, because I am using Windows client side to download the old backup of my VM from the old server (ver 5), the files are kept under the directory /var/lib/vz/dump file names are as such vzdump-qemu-(VM ID)(someothercrap).lzo. You'll need to go by the VM ID.

The using WinSCP again, I was able to upload the backup to the same directory on my new Proxmox server (ver 8.1), and do a restore, I did find that Windows 10 was still in an activated state and after doing an update, please note this was an install from 2017.
After the update, Windows 10 was still in an activated state.

I'll add more below, once I am done trying to upgrade to Windows 11.


--Update--

I have updated the VM's system settings, giving myself 8GB of ram, more CPU core's, TPM 2.0, booting the VM each time just to check that things still work.

Now I have made a list of changes, Upgrade machine type 5.1 to 9, switch to UEFI add EFI disk, add new hard drive over SATA, and now reinstall Windows 10.

Alright, so after a bit of playing, I have found that I needed to use x86-64-v2-AES I also had to change the core count from 4 and down to 2 now I can upgrade to Windows 11, right now I am waiting for it to pop up in Windows Update.