Create a vm in proxmox and copy the physical drive to the vm drive.
1. Create New VM in proxmox
2. In the OS tab, select "Do not use any media"
Verify Kernel version
[root@server10 conf.d]# hostnamectl
Static hostname: server10.example.com
Icon name: computer-server
Chassis: server
Machine ID: 22baa6004a0f4bb59217ab20b4d981c7
Boot ID: 35a631cc684348a4872db20ddb169a8a
Operating System: AlmaLinux 8.10 (Cerulean Leopard)
CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:almalinux:almalinux:8::baseos
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-553.8.1.el8_10.x86_64
Architecture: x86-64Check the boot partition for BIOS or UEFI
```bash
[root@dall conf.d]# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 600M 0 part /boot/efi <----
├─sda2 8:2 0 1G 0 part /boot
└─sda3 8:3 0 929.9G 0 part
├─cl_dall-root 253:0 0 150G 0 lvm /
├─cl_dall-swap 253:1 0 15.6G 0 lvm [SWAP]
├─cl_dall-home 253:2 0 186.3G 0 lvm /home
└─cl_dall-var 253:3 0 578G 0 lvm /var
```
Select the appropriate BIOS in the System tab:
Check your disk size
```bash
[root@dall conf.d]# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
```
Make the disk a little bit bigger than the physical disk
Select CPU and Memory based on requirements.
Select virtIO for network card (Linux has drivers for this pre installed.)
Confirm
### Copy data to hard drive
- Create an NFS share on the proxmox server
```bash
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/run/media/liveuser/new\ Volume/laptopHDD.img bs=1M status=progress
```
liveusb 172.16.15.45
twwp-pxmx-01 172.16.1.39
```bash
sudo dd if=/dev/sd0 of=driveImage.img bs=1M status=progress
```
Here is dd rescue version:
```bash
sudo ddrescue -c 1M -v /dev/sda /proxmox-vms/images/dall.img /proxmox-vms/images/dall.log
```
Rename file to .raw instead of .img with mv command
sample vm config file
b_samZFS = name of storage pool
123 = name of vm
driveImage.raw is name of the image
Then configure the vm to use sata1 (options > boot order)
/mnt/pve/proxmox-vms
Config file located at /etc/pve/qemu-server
Create nfs share on usb:
```bash
mkdir /proxmox-vms
```
```bash
sudo vim /etc/fstab
```
```
172.16.4.228:/mnt/array1/proxmox-vms /proxmox-vms nfs _netdev 0 0
```
```bash
sudo mount -a
```