View source for Windows 2016 guest best practices


==Introduction==

This is a set of best practices to follow when installing a Windows Server 2016 guest on a Proxmox VE server 6.x.
{{WinX-install-steps|osversion=Server 2016|osgroup=10/2016/2019|driverdir=2k16}}

==Further information==

===Disk-Image Format: raw vs qcow2===
Raw file format provides slightly better performance while qcow2 offers advanced features such as copy on write and [[Live_Snapshots]].
Since V2.3, qcow2 is the default format.
===VirtIO drivers===

Make it really easy: Build your ISO with drivers already included:
[[Windows guests - build ISOs including VirtIO drivers]]

Latest iso with VirtIO drivers :
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/

==See also==

[[Windows 2012 guest best practices]]

[[Windows 10 guest best practices]]

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