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Win10 SSMS

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Guide Used: https://youtu.be/6c-6xBkD2J4

Instructions

  1. Download Windows 10 iso (64bit)
  2. Download the Latest virtio-win iso
  3. upload the iso's to Proxmox
  4. Create new VM in Proxmox
    1. General
      1. Give it a name
      2. General
    2. OS
      1. Select windows iso
      2. guest type to windows
      3. version 10
      4. OS
    3. System
      1. Turn on QEMU Agent
      2. System
    4. Hard Disk
      1. Bus/Device --> SCSI
      2. Storage --> your choice
      3. Disk Size --> 60GB?
      4. !!Cache --> Write back!!
      5. hard disk
    5. CPU
      1. Cores --> 24?
      2. CPU
    6. Memory
      1. Ballooning (use minimum 1GB max 8GB)
      2. Memory (MiB) --> 8192
      3. Minimum memory (MiB) --> 1024
      4. Memory
    7. Network
      1. Model --> VirtIO (paravirtualized)
      2. Network
    8. Confirm
      1. Click Finish but do not start VM yet you need to configure 1 more thing
    9. VirtIO Virtual Disk
      1. We need to install the virtIO drivers to this VM
      2. therefore need to give the VM a disk drive to load the virtual disk into
      3. Select the VM in the proxmox panel
      4. Select the Hardware sub menu
      5. Click Add > CD/DVD Drive
      6. add drive
      7. Bus/Device --> IDE and 1
      8. Storage --> your choice
      9. Select the VirtIO iso file
      10. virtual disk
  5. Click on the VM > Console
  6. Right click VM > Start
  7. follow allow with the normal installation of windows
  8. can continue on without product key for reduced functionality mode
    • If you want to RDP onto the machine it needs to be a windows 10 Pro version
  9. Select Custom install
    1. No hard drives found to install windows onto, need to load drivers from virtio
    2. Click Load Driver
    3. load driver
    4. click Browse
    5. browse
    6. Go to virtio disk and expand
    7. expand
    8. First install vioscsi
    9. vioscsi
    10. vioscsi > w10 > amd64 > OK
    11. amd64
    12. Click Next
    13. Now we can see the hard drive
    14. hard drive
    15. Click Load Driver
    16. load driver
    17. click Browse
    18. Go to virtio disk and expand
    19. expand
    20. NetKVM > w10 > amd64
      1. downloads network adapter drivers so we can get upgrades while installing
    21. netkvm
    22. Click Next
    23. Click Load Driver
    24. load driver
    25. click Browse
    26. Go to virtio disk and expand
    27. expand
    28. Balloon > w10 > amd64
    29. balloon
    30. Click Next
  10. Now ready to continue with windows installation
  11. Click Next
  12. choose location
  13. keyboard layout
  14. personal use
  15. offline account
  16. name the pc
  17. password
  18. security questions
  19. choose privacy settings (uncheck everything)
  20. windows is running
  21. go to Device Manager
  22. Double click missing driver under Other Devices
    1. Other Devices
    2. Click Update Driver...
    3. Browse my computer for driver software
    4. Browse to the virtio disk and select it
    5. Click OK
    6. When prompted click Install to install the driver
  23. Need to install the Guest Agent
    1. Go to This PC
    2. Enter the virtio disk > guest-agent
    3. Execute qemu-ga-x86_64
    4. Click Yes to install
    5. reboot
  24. Click on VM > Summary See that guest agent isn't running because windows hasn't booted yet
  25. Enter the Console
  26. Boot the VM
  27. once booted check on the guest-agent has an IP
  28. Install Ssms
  29. Done!
  30. BONUS
    1. For faster performance can activate Remote Desktop and just RDP onto the VM for near native performance
    2. On mac use this app
      • Username from the VM (Microsoft account email)
      • Pass for that Microsoft account
      • Destination is IP of the VM
      • Gateway ignoring internal traffic is the gateway IP for the VLAN the VM's are on
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