Installing and configuring windows server 2012 r2 download install#
Select the "Red Hat VirtIO SCSI pass-through controller" and click next to install it. Hard disk: Browse to the CD drive where you mounted the VirtIO driver and select folder "vioscsi\2k12\amd64" and confirm.Now click "Load driver" to install the VirtIO drivers for hard disk and the network.
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Configure your memory settings as needed, continue and set "VirtIO (paravirtualized)" as network device, finish your VM creation.Set "Write back" as cache option for best performance (the "No cache" default is safer, but slower) and tick "Discard" to optimally use disk space (TRIM). For your virtual hard disk select "SCSI" as bus with "VirtIO SCSI" as controller.Continue and mount your Windows Server 2012 ISO in the CDROM drive Create a new VM, select "Microsoft Windows 8.x/2012/2012r2" as Guest OS and enable the "Qemu Agent" in the System tab.
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To obtain a good level of performance, we will install the Windows VirtIO Drivers during the Windows installation. This is a set of best practices to follow when installing a Windows Server 2012(R2) guest on a Proxmox VE server 6.x.