Solved, setting up a VM using qemu

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Hi all,


Didier, for some reason your script is giving me a "no bootable device" 
error, but needs must, thus, here are two scripts and instructions for 
use. I will post the scripts inline.


First, create a folder for your VM. I did:

$mkdir ~/qemu


Then copy the Windows .iso in to that folder and rename to windos.iso as 
follows


$cd ~/qemu

$cp ~/Downloads/Win10_21H1_English_x64.iso windows.iso


Now we make the virtual disk, the script doesn't do that for you.

#qemu-img create -f qcow2 windows.qcow2 128G


Mine is 128 GB in size, only because I use my Windows to make a living.


Now take the script below and save it as 'installwin.sh' do not copy the 
quotes on the blank lines at the top and botom, I put them there to 
indicate the script code.


"

#!/bin/zsh

cd `dirname $0`
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu 
host,hv_relaxed,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_vapic,hv_time -m 4G -smp cores=2 
-soundhw hda -device intel-hda -device hda-duplex -audiodev 
pa,id=pa,out.mixing-engine=off,out.latency=20000 -hda windows.qcow2 -nic 
user,smb="${HOME}/" -usbdevice braille -boot c -cdrom windows.iso -boot d

"


Make it executable.

#chmod a+x ~/qemu/installwin.sh


Now you run it and install Windows the normal way.


To actually start Windows, use the script below. Mine is saved as 
'startwin.sh'


"

#!/bin/zsh

cd `dirname $0`
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu 
host,hv_relaxed,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_vapic,hv_time -m 8G -smp cores=2 
-soundhw hda -device intel-hda -device hda-duplex -audiodev 
pa,id=pa,out.mixing-engine=off,out.latency=20000 -hda windows.qcow2 -nic 
user,smb="${HOME}/" -usbdevice braille -boot c

"


Please note, this set of scripts will let you install and run Windows in 
bios boot, not in EFI.

--
  Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

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