I found a tutorial to properly install Windows 11 Pro on QEMU/KVM on SysGuides

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I follow SysGuides from time to time because they periodically add new tutorials, all of which relate to QEMU/KVM. The other day, I checked and found a recent/new guide for installing Windows 11 Pro (including v25H2) in QEMU/KVM. The guide links to a tutorial for properly installing the Virtual Machine Manager (GUI interface) and everything it needs. Since I already have the Virtual Machine Manager properly installed, that link served well for me to re-check that I have everything needed to properly support Windows as well as any GNU/Linux distributions I want to check out.

I carefully followed the steps laid out in the How to Properly Install Windows 11 on KVM: Full Step-by-Step Guide, and I now have an amazingly fast Windows 11 Pro installation available here on my Garuda Linux system! This puts me one step closer to moving to my beloved Garuda Linux environment, at least after I give it a few months to make sure I can truly depend on it. If you’re interested, check it out for yourself,

Ernie

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Hello Ernest

It seems the unique link is not well created. Pls consider to fix it

Thanks for this post

p.d: Thanks for the mention of Garuda Linux

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Looks like you missed the server address as part of your URL…

I’d be interested to take a look myself…

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How to Properly Install Windows 11 on KVM: Full Step-by-Step Guide I believe this is it!!

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Sorry about that! It should be fixed now.

As for my mention of Garuda, I’ve been using it for a few years now, and I couldn’t be happier with it. On the few occasions I’ve encountered that I couldn’t solve myself, a quick post to the Garuda forum has consistently received useful replies, often within a day or so. All I have to do is follow the help request template, and I’m good to go! As much as I love the It’sFOSS community, if not equal, the Garuda community’s a very close second for me!

Ernie

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I’m not sure what happened there, but I’ve fixed the link in my OP. Sorry for that!

Ernie

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It is! I’ve also fixed the link in my OP, so I hope the guide helps others … :slight_smile:

Ernie

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It uses virt-manager … that is the most productive way to use VM’s in Linux.

Does anyond have hints for doing it the geeky way with raw qemu?

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I don’t know about QEMU, but SysGuides has a guide titled: How to Install a KVM Guest OS from the Command-Line, if it interests you :slight_smile:

Ernie

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That one uses virsh … the CLI tool that comes with virt-manager.
Virsh is useful, for example running a VM in a remote headless server.

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I suspected that, but I haven’t looked over the guide yet, so I though three could be a chance that it used command line tools instead of virsh.

The next thing I’d like to explore is whether I can create a desktop icon to launch my Windows 11 VM without the need to launch Virt-Manager. That’ll probably involve virsh too :slight_smile:

Ernie

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