Run Windows 7 retro gaming on modern PC useing Proxmox VM

[david]

It seems new computers can`t run windows 7 native but windows 7 is most good for playing retro games from 2005-up to 2015!
To make magic happend and use modern PC with old grafics cards we need to make windows 7 to work on efi vm.

Here is example configiration from proxmox VM running windows 7 in EFI mode! First you need to use pc-i440fx in UEFI mode and EFI patched windows 7 image to be able to make video drivers to work!

Proxmox host hardware is:

CPU - Ryzen 5950 16 core 32T
Ram - 128GB Ram Kingston 4x32GB 3400Mhz CL16
MB - Asus PRIME X570-PRO
PSU - 850W Seasonic

I tested with Radeon 560 and Radeon 280 gpu`s.They both works in this way.

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bios: ovmf
boot: order=sata0
cores: 2
cpu: host
hostpci0: 0000:0a:00.0
hostpci1: 0000:0a:00.1
machine: pc-i440fx-8.0
memory: 4096
net0: e1000=82:94:80:A2:CC:AA,bridge=vmbr1,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: win7
sata0: hdd1T:109/vm-109-disk-0.qcow2,size=100G
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
sockets: 1
usb0: host=1-1.3,usb3=1
vga: none