Windows Server 2022 Linode Virtual Machine Install With Proper Volume Resize
00:02:00 Creating the drive for the VM.
00:02:25 Booting the Qemu VM.
00:07:20 Adding the Administrator password.
00:09:15 Adding the network drivers.
00:11:50 Compressing the image with xz.
00:16:10 Choosing the Linode VM.
00:18:05 Adding a storage volume.
00:19:20 Booting into the rescue shell.
00:25:30 Decompressing the image onto the Linode VMs boot drive.
00:30:10 Changing the disk profile for the Linode boot drive.
00:35:10 Connecting with the Remote Desktop.
00:38:00 Boot volume can’t be resized easily from inside Windows.
00:40:00 Time to boot into rescue mode to perform the resize magic.
00:47:10 Back into Windows to complete the resize of the boot volume.
In this video I am installing Windows Server 2022 with a Qemu virtual machine, so that I can then transfer it to a Linode VM. I decided to show how to compress the resulting image with XZ, because I noticed that other YouTube videos were using gzip, which is a program that has a lower compression ratio and XZ is also multi threaded, so it can compress quite quickly if you have a multi core processor. Once the Server 2022 was booted on the Linode, I then showed the proper and easier way of resizing the boot drive to fill up all of the VMs drive space.
The commands are on my website at the below link:
https://www.macpczone.co.uk/content/windows-server-2022-linode-virtual-machine-install-proper-volume-resize
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