Proxmox - Guests (VMs and Containers) - VM - Create a VM

Create a VM

Navigate to pve in the main Proxmox menu on the left.
In the top right corner of the screen, click on the blue Create VM button.
On General tab:
- Name: Enter a name.
- Click Next.
On the OS tab:
- Use CD/DVD disc image file (iso): Checked.
- Storage: ISO1. Select the ISO storage disk that was created earlier. Alternatively, select local.
- ISO image: Select your uploaded ISO image.
- Guest OS: Ensure these are correct.
- Click Next.
On the System tab:
- Click Next.
On the Hard Disk tab:
- Storage: VM1. Select the Storage Area created earlier which will hold the VMs.
- Disk size (GiB): Assign an appropriate virtual disk size. This should not be larger than the size of the physical disk your VM is on.
- Click Next.
On the CPU tab:
- Sockets: Enter the number of sockets required for the VM.
- Cores: Enter the number of cores required for the VM.
- Type: host. In most cases, host will result in the maximum performance. For more information about CPU types, see the Proxmox wiki.
- Click Next.
On the Memory tab:
- Memory (MiB): Enter the amount of ram you want to assign to the VM.
- Click Next.
On the Network tab:
- Bridge: vmbr0.
- VLAN Tag: no VLAN.
- Firewall: Checked.
- Model: VirtIO (paravirtualized).
- MAC address: auto.
- Click Next.
On the Confirm tab:
- Check if everything is set up correctly.
- Click Finish.

The VM will now be created:

NOTE: To know more about a certain option, press the help button in Proxmox.