Virtio, Proxmox, and old & new Windows OSes (draft)
I've recently set up 4 proxmox configurations and have had successful and mixed results virtualizing previous hardware installs. Virtualizing previous hardware installs means that I've taken an existing Windows computer and used a software tool to copy the drive in full and made a special file out of it that I then copied over to the proxmox server itself and converted to an file format that proxmox understands and then I imported that into a virtual machine configuration. After doing that I was successful at using proxmox to boot that and run it as if it were on the actual hardware. The conversion process takes a while and configuring it after it has booted also takes some time. Once done you'd remote desktop into it and use it as if…