Don’t get me wrong you can get into other settings sometimes such as needing 3D and or other things. But for the most part this is how use it for all my linux virtual installs. Normally you won’t get the TPM and Secure boot when installing linux. I just select UEFI in the advanced tab on the last step or Bios if you want to use that.
Edit: I usually have vmware-tools installed also. You can also use open-vm-tools instead.
Yeah, sure - I’ve installed plenty of distros in VMs on Linux hosts without any issues, but I’ve never done Linux host > Windows guest before.
It’s a shame it doesn’t seem to work on KVM/QEMU at the moment, as that’s what I’m more familiar with, but at least VMWare seems to work instead.
Edit: I usually have
vmware-toolsinstalled also. You can useopen-vm-tools
That should be installed on both the guest and the host, right? Is either better than the other?
Yes i think so. I also think i can install Win 11 on kvm/QEMU but i don’t have it installed right now. I gave up on using it because everytime there was always an issue for me with updates and new kernels. Vmware has been more consistent for me and is very easy to use.
By the way, have you ever had the problem of the Linux host capturing capturing modifier keys instead of the Windows guest when running vmware in full screen?
As it stands, I can type word and phrases in Windows but as soon as I hit Ctrl, Alt, or the Win key, Gnome takes over. It’s kind of annoying, as I can’t really use any keyboard shortcuts.
Edit - I have vmware-tools installed in Windows, and open-vm-tools installed in Endeavor.
I don’t typically use shortcut keys in vm as they overlap and I’m not a big short cut key user to begin with. I use them sometimes for somethings on Linux.
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-win11-in-gnome-boxes.html
I have installed win11 with this guide a year ago, probably outdated by now, but maybe it helps you, for me it worked, I needed to install ovmf, got it from the AUR I think. Still works, windows never complained about tpm or whatnot.
edit: maybe you need an older win11 installer.
Thanks, but that was actually the very first guide I tried, just a few days ago. Same thing happened as with virt-manager: failed the Windows requirements check.
It may have something to do with my laptop (although I can’t think what - it’s quite new and has a Ryzen 4600H in it), or else ovmf or QEMU/KVM needs to be updated or something.
this guide is old, so maybe try to find an older win11 build somewhere, maybe it will get past the ovmf
Update: After wiping my drive and replacing my old dual boot setup with a fresh install of Endeavour, I tried again to install Windows 11 via virt-manager today and it worked.
I have no idea if it was something in my old installation getting in the way or whether there was an update that fixed the issue for QEMU/KVM but at least its working with virt-manager now!
In case it helps anyone in the future, here are the settings I used for the Windows 11 guest after installing edk2-ovmf and swtpm as per this guide:
Firmware: UEFI x86_64: /usr/share/edk2/x64/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd
TPM: Emulated | Hypervisor default
Display: Spice
Guest tools: I used the latest virtio-win-xxx-.iso from here to install the display driver via Device Manager (select the default Display Adapter > right click ‘Update Driver’ and have Windows search the iso in D:) and then running the virtio-win-guest-tools.exe for the other drivers.
Can you post the domain xml file here for future reference?
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<domain type="kvm">
<name>Windows11</name>
<uuid>9a2eafb4-80cd-4843-90ed-5656201b54c8</uuid>
<metadata>
<libosinfo:libosinfo xmlns:libosinfo="http://libosinfo.org/xmlns/libvirt/domain/1.0">
<libosinfo:os id="http://microsoft.com/win/11"/>
</libosinfo:libosinfo>
</metadata>
<memory unit="KiB">8388608</memory>
<currentMemory unit="KiB">6291456</currentMemory>
<vcpu placement="static">8</vcpu>
<os firmware="efi">
<type arch="x86_64" machine="pc-q35-8.0">hvm</type>
<firmware>
<feature enabled="no" name="enrolled-keys"/>
<feature enabled="yes" name="secure-boot"/>
</firmware>
<loader readonly="yes" secure="yes" type="pflash">/usr/share/edk2/x64/OVMF_CODE.secboot.fd</loader>
<nvram template="/usr/share/edk2/x64/OVMF_VARS.fd">/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/Windows11_VARS.fd</nvram>
</os>
<features>
<acpi/>
<apic/>
<hyperv mode="custom">
<relaxed state="on"/>
<vapic state="on"/>
<spinlocks state="on" retries="8191"/>
</hyperv>
<vmport state="off"/>
<smm state="on"/>
</features>
<cpu mode="host-passthrough" check="none" migratable="on">
<topology sockets="1" dies="1" cores="4" threads="2"/>
</cpu>
<clock offset="localtime">
<timer name="rtc" tickpolicy="catchup"/>
<timer name="pit" tickpolicy="delay"/>
<timer name="hpet" present="no"/>
<timer name="hypervclock" present="yes"/>
</clock>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
<pm>
<suspend-to-mem enabled="no"/>
<suspend-to-disk enabled="no"/>
</pm>
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
<disk type="file" device="disk">
<driver name="qemu" type="qcow2" discard="unmap"/>
<source file="/var/lib/libvirt/images/Windows11-1.qcow2"/>
<target dev="sda" bus="sata"/>
<boot order="1"/>
<address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="0" unit="0"/>
</disk>
<disk type="file" device="cdrom">
<driver name="qemu" type="raw"/>
<target dev="sdb" bus="sata"/>
<readonly/>
<address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="0" unit="1"/>
</disk>
<controller type="usb" index="0" model="qemu-xhci" ports="15">
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x02" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="0" model="pcie-root"/>
<controller type="pci" index="1" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="1" port="0x10"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x0" multifunction="on"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="2" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="2" port="0x11"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x1"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="3" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="3" port="0x12"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x2"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="4" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="4" port="0x13"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x3"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="5" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="5" port="0x14"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x4"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="6" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="6" port="0x15"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x5"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="7" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="7" port="0x16"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x6"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="8" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="8" port="0x17"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x02" function="0x7"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="9" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="9" port="0x18"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x0" multifunction="on"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="10" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="10" port="0x19"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x1"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="11" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="11" port="0x1a"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x2"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="12" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="12" port="0x1b"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x3"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="13" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="13" port="0x1c"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x4"/>
</controller>
<controller type="pci" index="14" model="pcie-root-port">
<model name="pcie-root-port"/>
<target chassis="14" port="0x1d"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x03" function="0x5"/>
</controller>
<controller type="sata" index="0">
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x1f" function="0x2"/>
</controller>
<controller type="virtio-serial" index="0">
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x03" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</controller>
<interface type="network">
<mac address="52:54:00:7f:cc:15"/>
<source network="default"/>
<model type="e1000e"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x01" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</interface>
<serial type="pty">
<target type="isa-serial" port="0">
<model name="isa-serial"/>
</target>
</serial>
<console type="pty">
<target type="serial" port="0"/>
</console>
<channel type="spicevmc">
<target type="virtio" name="com.redhat.spice.0"/>
<address type="virtio-serial" controller="0" bus="0" port="1"/>
</channel>
<input type="tablet" bus="usb">
<address type="usb" bus="0" port="1"/>
</input>
<input type="mouse" bus="ps2"/>
<input type="keyboard" bus="ps2"/>
<input type="keyboard" bus="virtio">
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x05" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</input>
<input type="tablet" bus="virtio">
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x06" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</input>
<tpm model="tpm-crb">
<backend type="emulator" version="2.0"/>
</tpm>
<graphics type="spice" autoport="yes">
<listen type="address"/>
<image compression="off"/>
</graphics>
<sound model="ich9">
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x1b" function="0x0"/>
</sound>
<audio id="1" type="spice"/>
<video>
<model type="qxl" ram="65536" vram="65536" vgamem="16384" heads="1" primary="yes"/>
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x01" function="0x0"/>
</video>
<redirdev bus="usb" type="spicevmc">
<address type="usb" bus="0" port="2"/>
</redirdev>
<redirdev bus="usb" type="spicevmc">
<address type="usb" bus="0" port="3"/>
</redirdev>
<watchdog model="itco" action="reset"/>
<memballoon model="virtio">
<address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x04" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</memballoon>
</devices>
</domain>
Neat!
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