Request for Prerequisites – Physical to Virtual Migration on Proxmox

[Vignesh Ravi]

Hi Team,

I am planning to migrate a physical machine to a virtual machine using Proxmox. Kindly share the necessary prerequisites and any recommended steps or best practices to ensure a smooth migration process.

Looking forward to your guidance.

 

[Johannes S]

What operating system and applications are you using on your physical host?

 

[LnxBil]

I would recommend to read those articles:

• https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE
• https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Advanced_Migration_Techniques_to_Proxmox_VE

 

[Vignesh Ravi]

What operating system and applications are you using on your physical host?

Windows Server Operating system and RHEL

 

[Johannes S]

Windows Server Operating system and RHEL

For Windows Server read the best practices wiki Page ( it links also pages for different Windows versions):

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_2025_guest_best_practices

I wouldn't expect any issues with RHEL.

You could then use something like clonezilla ( for Linux) or hd2vhdx ( windows) to create disk images of your existing operating Systems to use for the vm setup. For more information read the wiki pages linked by LnxBil

 

[Magnus-mercer]

Windows Server reference: https://www.vinchin.com/vm-migration/p2v-proxmox.html?s=qj6bzf6uw7

 

[Johannes S]

Windows Server reference: https://www.vinchin.com/vm-migration/p2v-proxmox.html?s=qj6bzf6uw7

This is not even an official document from proxmox and for a third-party product. Imho this isn't helpful at all for the OP