Hi, i have just installed qemu but i crash when the windows setup starts. I’m following this guide by some ordinary gamers. I’ve given the VM 6/8GB and 8 of my 12 threads. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Ah ok sorry… So you gave it 6Gigs of your 8Gig memory and did not even consider to have swapfile/partition: [image] pro0110: Swap: Alert: No swap data was found. I guess it did not crash, but rather freeze because the host have less memory available and cannot swap.

Hello @pro0110 :wink: You can not expect that someone would watch a 45min video just for explanation. Summarize step by step what you have done. Thanks.

this is what ive done from my basic understanding enabled iommu installed qemu libvirt edk2-ovmf virt-manager ebtables dnsmasq packages enabled and started libvirtd.service and virtlogd.socket started default network vm settings: chipset q35 firmware UEFI x86_64: /usr/share/edk2-ovmf/x64/OVMF…

Have a look at this guide: [image] [HowTo] Provide System Information Tutorials information_source This tutorial is superseded by this one. Remember all Tutorials are wiki posts that can be edited by TL2 ( Trust Level 2) members and above. +1 Welcome to Manjaro! +1 …

   ~  sudo inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width  ✔ [sudo] password for billly: System: Kernel: 5.13.13-1-MANJARO…

[image] pro0110: Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c81 class-ID: 0300 You cannot passthrough a GPU which is in use. You need one GPU for Xorg and a second GPU for the VM. Only GPUs which can be u…

im not even on the gpu pass through part, i havent even installed my os yet

alright, ill try with maybe 3gb instead and let u know also i have no clue how to make swap

[image] pro0110: Device-1: luks-2f4041b2-f195-4632-b980-5dcd032197df maj-min: 254:0 type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 232.59 GiB Also Luks encryption needs memory for decryption and will slow down the whole process.

seems to be working now, thanks!

VM crashes after booting

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megavolt 15 September 2021 00:09 4

Have a look at this guide:

And then please post your system information. Thanks.