the defaults (CRB, Emulated, 2.0) should be fine. In boot options, tick off your virtual CD-ROM drive, and then set that as the highest boot priority:įinally, add a virtual TPM module. While I was looking into this, I saw some things saying OVMF_CODE.ms.fd instead, if your list has that, that should work as well. It has to be secure boot, otherwise Windows 11 won't install. In the overview section, set Firmware to UEFI x86_64: /./OVMF_. The minimum drive size for Windows 11 is 64gb, so it needs to be at least that big.įor step 5, choose your VM name, and then tick off Customize configuration before install. the default (4gb & 2 cores) are the minimum for W11, so I set my RAM to 8gb, but you can always change these values later.įor step 4, make a virtual disk image. It'll auto-detect the OS as Windows 10, this is fine.įor step 3, set your memory and CPU cores. if it's not in the drop-down, choose it by clicking 'Browse. In Virtual Machine Manager, create a new VM from the top-left corner.įor step 2, pick your Windows 11 iso. Virtio - once you have your VM set up, mount the latest image from here to install virtio drivers for things like networking Qemu & virt-manager - if you don't already have these installed, they'll be in your distro's repo, more than likely. I used edk2-ovmf from the arch official repos. OVMF - you need this for UEFI/secureboot. If there's any later-on issues, just let me know.

Since I just wrote the steps I got to get it to let me install, I can't promise it'll work flawlessly.

I did this on Manjaro, but you should be able to do it from any distro. Hey, I don't usually write guides, but I couldn't find one to follow for setting up Windows 11 in QEMU, so I figured I'll write what I found myself.

Windows 11 virtual machine