Moving host drive from new machine to Proxmox Image

[athurio]

I recently picked up a cheap Optiplex to use as my Proxmox server. Instead of using the spinning drive it came with I used an NVME drive to build my Proxmox server. I've watching some tutorials on how to create an image of the original host drive so I can create a Windows 10 VM of it in Proxmox. My question is whether or not it's worth the trouble. What I mean by that is will the VM see all the hardware in the same manner as it would see it if it were the host and not VM. Or will it go through a process of finding new hardware. Is it better to just download an image from MSFT and install it that way? TIA

 

[Dunuin]

What I mean by that is will the VM see all the hardware in the same manner as it would see it if it were the host and not VM.

No, VMs only see virtual hardware. Windows will know that it is running inside a VM and not bare metal. So you probably will have to reactivate that windows anyway.