You can refer to the video for the pve installation tutorial: pve installation

pve install Windows10 video tutorial: pve install Windows10

After installing pve, we can install the virtual machine. Of course, we can decide whether it is necessary to install win10 by ourselves.

Preparation

1. Download the win10 image file: https://msdn.itellyou.cn/
We choose the appropriate operating system on msdn

Need to use Thunder to download
2. Download pve windows driver Windows VirtIO Drivers: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virtio/virtio-win.iso

3. Upload the two files you just downloaded to pve

create virtual machine

create virtual machine
general settings

3. Operating system

Click the drop-down box of the ISO image in the use CD/DVD, and select the image of win10 just uploaded

4. The system remains the same

5. Disk

Disk Here we just need to set the disk size for system installation, and we can add disks for expansion later

6. CPU

The number of cores should be filled in according to the actual situation of your machine

The category here needs to be set to host

7. Memory

You can set the memory according to the actual situation. The minimum memory for win10 is 4G

8. Internet

Here we need to uncheck the firewall

Model stays the same

9. finish

You can successfully add the virtual machine according to the above steps, don’t start it up yet, we also need to add the driver image of Windows VirtIO Drivers

Add Windows VirtIO Drivers driver

We select the virtual machine we just created, and then click the hardware menu
Click the Add button and select CD/DVD drive

In the ISO image, select the Windows VirtIO Drivers image file you just downloaded

After the addition is complete, we can see that there will be two CD/DVD drives, one is our win10 image file, and the other is the drive image file

install win10

We select the created virtual machine, click the console menu, and then click Start to start the virtual machine

You can see the familiar installation interface

Everyone can operate normally.

click next
install now

Select the version we want to install and click Next

choose custom

We did not see the disk that can be selected for installation. At this time, we will use the driver image
Click to load the driver

click to browse

Expand the virtio driver image
- Expand vioscsi Expand win10 Select amd64, click OK
- Then we can see that a driver has been loaded successfully, click Next to see that you can choose to install the disk

Install

After successfully loading the driver above, you can see the disk, we select the disk and click Next to install

Just wait for it to restart automatically

After the loading is complete, we can see that it has automatically restarted

Now we wait for it to load and complete the corresponding settings

Network selection Select here: I do not have an Internet connection

Enter the desktop after the setup is complete

As you can see, there is no network connection here, and we need to load the driver ourselves

set network

Click the resource manager here in the status bar, select the secondary computer

Right click on This PC, select Properties

Select Device Manager

Expand other devices, right-click the Ethernet controller and click Update Driver

click browse my computer

Just select the virtio launcher, click OK, then click Next, wait for the driver to load successfully, and you will see a prompt that there is a network connection

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Well, the PVE installation of win10 is complete

Summarize

There is not much difference between PVE installation win10 and physical machine installation, but a specific driver needs to be loaded in the virtual environment

There is no disk during installation, you need to load the amd64 driver
After the installation is complete, there is no network, and the network driver needs to be manually updated

You can also choose to start the version of windows. If the PVE configuration is relatively low, you can choose the win7 or 32 version of the operating system. When installing the driver, select the corresponding version.

PVE install windows10