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syamajala

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From: here, there, everywhere

Registered: 2005-01-25

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Trying to boot windows 11 partition from qemu

I have dual boot setup on my system with arch and windows 11 everything seems to be working. I'd like to try to boot the windows 11 partition from arch using qemu/kvm.

I tried the following command:

sudo qemu-system-x86_64 \
-bios /usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd \
-cpu host -enable-kvm -m 8G -smp 4 --enable-kvm \
-drive file=/dev/nvme0n1,media=disk,format=raw

It gets to the Automatic Repair screen for windows. When I installed arch, I switched to AHCI on my xps 17, disabled secure boot, and bitlocker. I just rebooted into windows and installed the virtio drivers. So I don't know why its not booting in qemu.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Trying to boot windows 11 partition from qemu

Have you emulated the TPM chip? I think Win11 needs that. Not sure though, probably better to ask this on a Windows forum.

Might be simplest to just disable the requirements in Win11: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/m … quirement/

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nos4a2

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Registered: 2024-04-19

Posts: 3

Re: Trying to boot windows 11 partition from qemu

I'm trying to do this following this blog post
https://simgunz.org/posts/2021-12-12-bo … linux-kvm/
Can anyone help me?