How To Install Windows Server 2025 VM on Proxmox VE

June 4, 2024 Alice AUSTIN

Windows Server 2025 is an upcoming long term servicing channel release of Windows Server, slated for release in the second half of 2024.

The operating system was announced on 26 January 2024. It is the first version of Windows Server to support the ARM64 architecture.

In this video, I will show you how to install Windows Server 2025 VM on Proxmox VE, the steps are as follow:

– Log into the Proxmox web UI
– Select a storage from the left navigation pane to download the .iso to
Select ISO Images in the left sub-navigation pane.
– If running Proxmox 6, download the Server 2025 iso Download and the VirtIO driver iso Download and upload them both to the Proxmox ISO image library
– If on Proxmox 7, click Download from URL and paste the download URLs from above – Click Query URL – Click Download
– Right click the Proxmox node name – Create VM
– Give the VM a unique ID and Name – Next
– Set the Type to Microsoft Windows and Version to 11/2022 and select the Server 2025 iso, Check the box for VirtIO drivers – select the VirtIO driver iso
– On the System tab, set the BIOS to SeaBIOS, Choose to enable/disable TPM and set the TPM Storage device, Check the Qemu Agent box and set the SCSI Controller to VirtIO SCSI – Next
– On the Disks tab, set the Storage device and Disk size to at least 30GB, Bus/Device to VirtIO Block and Cache to Write back – Next
– On the CPU tab, set Cores to 2 or more and the Type to host – Next
– On the Memory tab, set the Memory to 4096 or more – Next
– Leave the defaults on the Network tab – Next
– Verify the summary and click Finish
– Select the Server 2025 VM – Hardware
– Click the Add dropdown – CD/DVD Drive
– Double click the new CD/DVD Drive – Select Use CD/DVD disc image file (iso) – Select the storage where the VirtIO driver iso was downloaded – Select the virtio .iso file – Click OK
– Right click the Server 2025 VM in the left navigation pane – Start
Click console in the left sub-navigation menu
– If prompted, press a key to boot to the CD/DVD drive
– Set the Language settings – Click Next
– Set the Keyboard settings – Click Next
– Click the I agree everything will be deleted checkbox – Click Next
– Enter a product key or select I don’t have a product key – Click Next
– Select the desired edition – Click Next
– On the License Terms screen click Accept
– Click Load Driver – Browse – Expand the VirtIO driver disc – Navigate to amd642k22 – Click OK – Next
– With the Unallocated Space selected, click Next
– Click Install
– Wait for Windows to copy files, the VM will reboot several times
If prompted, enter a Product Key or click Do this later
– Enter and confirm a password for the Administrator account – Click Finish
– Select the Keyboard icon – Ctrl-Alt-Del
– Input the administrator password and login
– Welcome to Windows Server 2025