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How to install Windows 7 VM on Proxmox VE

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To install Windows 7 VM on Proxmox VE

This tutorial shows how to install a Windows 7 VM with spice client and VirtIO Drivers on Proxmox VE. Spice is a client software, which runs under spice protocol created for virtualization environment to allow remote sessions very fast. And VirtIO Drivers is a hard disk bus type which is faster than IDE and SCSI type

Installing Windows 7

Log into your Proxmox and click Create VM from your Proxmox Node.

Proxmox

In the OS configuration, you need to choose your storage and ISO file.

ISO file

And then, choose Hard disk Bus Device as VirtIO Block and cache as Write-back.

VirtlO

After that, you need to configure CPU and proceed further.

CPU

Later, in the next step, you need to allocate memory Size for RAM

Memory


And then, you need to configure your network interface and proceed further to next step.
Network

And now, check all the details and click on the Finish button.

Details

Afterwards, click display and choose your display type as SPICE.

SPICE

Now, You need to add the secondary DVD Drive for inserting VirtIO Drivers ISO.

Drivers

After that, you need to choose your VirtIO drivers.ISO

ISO

And then, click “ Start” to power on your vm, and choose the Console as SPICE.

Start

You shall now go on with the installation of the Windows.

Windows

Here the Hard disk is not identified, so we need to install the VirtIO drivers to identify hard disk. Now click Load Driver.

Hard disk

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Load driver

Load driver 2

Now, you can find your hard disk, and partition it for Windows 7 installation.

Window 7

You are now in the penultimate stage of your Windows 7 installation.

penultimates


You are now asked to set up the windows. Give the necessary credentials.
Windows

Login


And then review your time and date settings.

Date setting

After completing the windows 7 installation you need to install guest tools for windows 7 VM, download it from spice official website https://www.spice-space.org/download.html.

spice official


The License agreement now appears on screen. Accept it and proceed.
License

Your SPICE Guest Tools setup now appears on your screen.

Tool setup

The setup is now done.
setup

With this, the method to install Proxmox on Windows 7 comes to an end.

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tyab00
Hello! I would like to ask after Windows 7 installation (PVE6.0) there is no sound, I do not know how to deal with it? Thank you!
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Frequently asked questions ( 5 )

Q

Does my CPU support virtualization?

A

To check if your CPU is virtualization compatible, check for the vmx or svm tag in this command output: egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

Q

What is a QEMU/KVM guest (or VM) in proxmox?

A

A QEMU/KVM guest (or VM) is a guest system running virtualized under Proxmox VE using QEMU and the Linux KVM kernel module.

Q

What is QEMU in proxmox?

A

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. QEMU
uses the Linux KVM kernel module to achieve near native performance by executing
the guest code directly on the host.

Q

Is it possible to create a dual boot setup for windows 7 and proxmox?

A

Yes, it is possible to create the dual boot for Proxmox and Windows 7 but you need to have both the OS is installed on a separate hard disk, you can't install Proxmox on your Windows 7 installed hard disk, it will erase all of your windows data.

Q

where the Proxmox will store all ISO files?

A

Proxmox VE will stores it's ISO file in a default location /var/lib/vz/template/iso

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