Windows Server 2022 guest best practices

[IsThisThingOn]

I followed https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_2022_guest_best_practices to install Windows Server 2022.
I think the doc is either outdated or copy pasted from Windows 10.
A lot of options are not mentioned in the guide.
And it does not work. You can not even start the VM by following this guide.

Here is the error you get:
kvm: -device ide-cd,bus=ide.1,unit=1,drive=drive-ide3,id=ide3,bootindex=103: Can't create IDE unit 1, bus supports only 1 units
stopping swtpm instance (pid 57743) due to QEMU startup error
TASK ERROR: start failed: QEMU exited with code 1

Instead IDE bus 3, I used iSCSI bus 1. That seems to work.

 

[dcsapak]

on q35 only ide0 and ide2 will work. if you need to use q35 you should also be able to use sata as interface for the virtio iso. i'll improve the wiki article

 

[IsThisThingOn]

It is set on q35 6.1.

Is that because of selecting Windows 11 2021 at the start?
It says default i440fx.

Another stupid question, why does it not set the disk to SCSI and uses IDE as default, when I selected Windows 11 at the start?
Or Intel E1000 instead of VirtIO for network card?

ide0 for the drivers cd worked. Thank you for your help.

 

[oguz]

I think the doc is either outdated or copy pasted from Windows 10.
A lot of options are not mentioned in the guide.
And it does not work. You can not even start the VM by following this guide.

only difference is the names/versions of the drivers (and win11/server2022 doesn't have its own virtio driver versions (yet?) so the win10/2k19 drivers are used)
but the process is the same and following the wiki article should get you a working VM. as for the error you got relating to the IDE you can use ide0 and ide2 for the slots like @dcsapak described

Is that because of selecting Windows 11 2021 at the start?
It says default i440fx.

Another stupid question, why does it not set the disk to SCSI and uses IDE as default, when I selected Windows 11 at the start?
Or Intel E1000 instead of VirtIO for network card?

that would be an improvement you can make an enhancement request on our bugtracker [0]

[0]: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com

 

[IsThisThingOn]

Thanks for correcting the docs so quickly. Will do a bug report for the other stuff.

 

[Anton aus Tirol]

Why is the wiki saying to use the 2k19 drivers when there are 2k22 drivers on the virtio disk?