Installing a Windows Server in my Homelab, am I crazy?

32 thoughts on “Installing a Windows Server in my Homelab, am I crazy?”

• Reminder: you must enable QEMU Guest Agent in your VM settings before they will work, this is under Options on the particular VM in the proxmox web gui

• Just installed it on one of my bare metal servers. Just for testing.

• No front but you sound like a german
  i am also a german boy 😀

• Great video as usual , the title is a little bit confusing though

• Hello Christian –
  
  I wanted to try out wind 2022 server and when uploading the drivers, an error occurred: volume local:iso/virtio-win-0.1.229.iso does not exist (500)

  What could be the case? Hope you (anyone?) can help out with some suggestions.

  Marco

• Yes, you are crazy!

• WDS for me

• Generally it´s not a good idea to place domain controllers within the DMZ

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• should i remove the attached isos after I'm done?

• Do you have any videos aimed at beginners looking to setup their first sever? What do you recommend for virtualisation for a someone fairly new?

• Geralt has taken on a new monster hunt contract, first objective find the windows end users and admin them xD haha digging the sweater Christian thanks for another great intro video!

• Thank you so much for the awesome video! I am going to install windows server on my laptop for home labbing. I am curious about requirements for client access licenses. Will microsoft stop my client computers from utilizing the services or do the CALs operate on the honor system by which I would still have full access to all the features of windows server from my client PCs? Thank you

• I jumped from windows AD to Samba4 AD. You just need to install RSAT to a laptop to do all the admin things. Work like charms for 2 years.

• Why are you doing a windows AD when you could do a samba ldap solution, linux ldap or an aad?

• You saved me big time again my friend! I spent days trying to figure out why it wouldn't boot up in my Proxmox but finally it works with your instruction. Funny though that it works for you when you upload the server iso to Proxmox without facing any error '0'. I didn't have that too when I setup a fresh Proxmox.. So now I am relying on scp to transfer them. If you have some tutorial to teach how to avoid this error I'm sure that will help us beginners too!

• So, are you crazy now?

• @19:03 you wanted to share documentation and RFCs . No links provided; :/

• Surprised you didnt run a Samba DC!

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• Before install / add a role in my server. It's advisable to get the latest windows updates, then snapshot it and work from there. Just my two cents…

• I've got multiple Server 2022 installs going on my Proxmox host and never once have I added a virtual TPM. I've also spun it up on ESXi, XCP-NG with XO, and Hyper-V without ever adding a virtual TPM. If it were a requirement, having to add a KMS and manage encryption for all small businesses in the Vmware ecosystem would also be unmanageable.

• Coming from the Unix/Linux side the WinSrv 2003 wasn’t a great experience. (My first Ms product to play with was MsDOS 0.1 ).
  It had all the same tools but rebranded and capsulated in strange ways. The best was the hours of support it generated for our engineers.
  It got better with every version. And we installed them as routine and the engineers could do it with minimum input from the sys.devs or us managers. Thus giving us time to deal with the more complicated systems.
  2008 was ok and 2012 was nice and mature.
  Call me old and old fashioned but I prefer to run the original open source systems. Last one I used in my home-lab was 2012, 2016 never mad it past testing.
  But it’s definitely worth to now it! A great number of small-medium sized companies do run Windows Servers and IT Director’s love it.

• Whats so crazy in installing ws in homelab? wtf

• could you talk about license activation on the VM on proxmox

• Get this error on proxmox and I cant find a away to fix it. Failed to start Boot0001 "UEFI QEMU DVD-ROM" Time out

• Just for the record, you don't need a TPM for windows server 2022. I have baremetal and virtualized server 2022 running fine, and it never asked for a TPM.

• This video is like watching a huge highway pile-on: it's disgusting but I can't turn away

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• Shortest IT joke:
  "Windows Server"

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