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Installing Windows in a VM on a brand-new laptop in 8 steps: * Curse your hardware purchasing choice if you have Broadcom or NVidia, because they add (non-dram
by stragies 7y ago
Installing Windows in a VM on a brand-new laptop in 8 steps:
* Curse your hardware purchasing choice if you have Broadcom or NVidia, because they add (non-dramatic) steps.
* Make sure, everything Virt-related is enabled in the BIOS/UEFI
* Install normal debian default system
* Install virt-manager, libvirt0, qemu-kvm
* Add your desktop user to system groups kvm and libvirt
* Download Windows Iso and Virtio-Drivers iso
* Create new virtual machine, make sure everything possible is set to "VirtIO", mount both ISOs from above as 2 CDROM drives.
* Install Windows, let it search the VirtIO CD for drivers
* Done, total time less than 2 hours on a machine newer than 2015. (No command line required. Just don't use a linux installer from x years ago, but a recent one, e.g. Debian Buster)
- brabel 7y agoThat's basically what I did... and you're right, took me around 2 hours. The problem is that when I re-booted the machine, the VM just didn't work anymore and nothing I did would bring it back to life. I could have spent another 2 hours re-doing everything, if I had infinite amounts of time to play with this stuff, but I don't.