Request for Prerequisites – Physical to Virtual Migration on Proxmox

Vignesh Ravi

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May 19, 2025
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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.
 
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