I need to find an alternative to Virtualbox, it is far too slow for me. I followed the Manjaro instructions to install Virt-Manager. I selected the Win 11.iso, accepted all defaults, including installation at /var. However, I can’t progress from the shell screen.
It can’t find any medium to boot from.
I do a lot of Qemu with Win 10 though (including GPU passthrough). I haven’t even tried to get Win 11 working, I still think you have to hack your away around the TPM requirements to get Win 11 to even work.
Edit: A quick search is showing a lot has changed from when I looked into this over a year ago. You can, but there’s extra steps. You have to install the package swtpm if it’s not already. And use the secure boot firmware (/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.secboot.4m.fd)
It’s a requirement of even the installer.
I cannot say if this has any correlation
win11.isoI have created a win11 vm
While you can launch the installer - I remember reading about this long time ago - you will need to apply some windows registry tweaks to allow the installer to complete.
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From virt-manager - Windows 11 | root.nix.dk
Before starting the installer press ShiftF10 so launch the Windows Cmd utility and launch regedit.
Close the registry editor and exit the shell, then continue the installer
During last stage the installer will insist in network access.
This can be disabled using the Cmd utility ShiftF10 and enter OOBE\BYPASSNRO - then press Enter and back in the setup window click I don’t have internet.
Thanks @Molski. I have the TPM and OVMF files installed, but I may not have applied the correct settings.
I discovered this guide but it is more complex than I expected. I am considering reverting to Windows 10 to avoid the Win 11 hurdles.
@linux-aarhus I downloaded the iso from Microsoft. I can’t even boot it let alone apply my licence, so I am guessing the problem is elsewhere. Win 10 may be the easier option.
Thanks for the replies.
So did I - see the content below the blur in above comment.
I took a look at it - indeed appears complex - it covers a lot of tweaking, which you may not need.
The bare minimum to get a virtual windows 11 running with virt-manager is provided above.
I suggest keeping the guide you found at hand - it may be useful should you take a further steps beyond the bare necessities.
Can confirm that the steps @linux-aarhus lists will get you a working W11 virtual machine using virtmanager.
Possible issue: The ISO is in a place where virtmanager cannot acces it, hence the error. If it is in your home folder place it somewhere else, like /var/tmp/.
I was hoping they would eventually come around. Last year they broke every cloud instance of Win 11 because of a TPM requirement patch that slipped through.
Like I did with Windows ME and Windows Vista, I skipped it. And I will again, or just refuse to run any Windows in the future.
At least if they don’t stop going out of their way to get Win 11 running and supported with Azure or Hyper-V, while attempting making it near impossible to run it anywhere else. The optimizations they put in for virtualising Win10/11 were actually really slick too. Allow me to pay you money and bloody well use them!
So it hasn’t changed much. When you bend over backwards to get it just installed. MS could render your Win 11 guest useless through a patch. And since this is violating the EULA, they can get away with it.
My ultimatum is that they will have until my Windows 10 extended support license expires, or RIP Microsoft.
Try wright exit at the prompt and the installer should start.
@lp354 thanks but I don’t know what ‘wright exit’ means. I gave up after my efforts resulted in a screwed system that wouldn’t boot. The downside; I lost a day. The upside; my machine has never been faster.
The only reason I wanted Windows was so I could dump Virtualbox and find another solution to install Scrivener for Windows.
I discovered a much easier way to install Scrivener for Windows on Linux using Lutris. Couldn’t be happier and I am Windows free. 
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