Hi beautiful people,
I wanted to test drive WIN 11 ( work purposes, because of formatting issues with LibreOffice and WPS). WIN 11 just works better as the company has a 365 MS environment.
So I created a bootable drive with WIN 11 but the booting fails.
Booting… and nothing happens.
Furthermore, I tried running Boxes and this notice showed up.
My system can’t work with the secure boot. Now what would be the easiest way for me to be able to use WIN 11?
This is time sensitive !
Create a windows 11 vm in fedora using vlib virt manager.
Make sure to use uefi bios with a version 2 tpm.
I am running win 11 is this way.
Can you provide detailed instructions as I have tried it and the issue persists.
Also my secure boot fails as seen here:
Try Turning on secure boot in the VM settings?
Instead of Boxes, I’d recommend using KVM with virt-manager (Virtual Machine Manager).
First go to your UEFI/Bios and make sure your CPU’s virtualization feature is enabled. Sometimes it’s called SVM. You don’t need Secure boot nor TPM. They’re both disabled on my PC and I’ve successfully created a Win11 virtual machine, just moments ago.
Install it:
sudo dnf install @virtualization
This will install KVM, QEMU, libvirt, virt-manager and virt-viewer. After installation, add your user to the libvirt group:
sudo usermod -aG libvirt $(whoami)
Then log out and back in for the changes to take effect.
Launch virt-manager from your applications menu.
Create new VMs using the GUI, and configure them as needed (e.g., assign CPU cores, RAM, and storage).
When asked, assign a new directory pool at the location of your Win11 .iso file and choose the required .iso as your boot media.
Follow the installation prompts and you’ll get there. Secure boot and TPM 2 should be emulated by default.
Press any key…
Ok, try switching from console view to details and check if your boot media is loaded.
Sounds like you do not have the DVD connected to the virtual DVD drive for the VM.
Also make sure that the download of the ISO image conpleted without error.
So what should I do?
Click on View and switch to Details (from Console). Select your SATA CD ROM and check if the .iso file is loaded as your boot media. If it is, go back to Console view and select Reset in the emulated Bios.
Thank you all for helping out, but the issue persists. What are we missing here?
Should I download a fresh copy of WIN 11 and try the same process with it?
Shutdown the VM is it is running then use virtual machine manager to change the setting.
Now boot the VM and it should boot from the DVD
Issue persists.
How much RAM/Memory did you give the VM? Windows 11 needs a fair bit, make sure you give more than 4GB
In the settings Select Overview and then look at the XML.
I could not see this in the “Deatils” view - maybe you have to set this up when you create the VM?
There is an section in the XML; mine looks like this:
<os firmware="efi">
<type arch="x86_64" machine="pc-q35-8.1">hvm</type>
<firmware>
<feature enabled="yes" name="enrolled-keys"/>
<feature enabled="yes" name="secure-boot"/>
</firmware>
<loader readonly="yes" secure="yes" type="pflash" format="qcow2">/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_CODE_4M.secboot.qcow2</loader>
<nvram template="/usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_VARS_4M.secboot.qcow2" format="qcow2">/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/win11_VARS.qcow2</nvram>
<boot dev="hd"/>
<bootmenu enable="yes"/>
</os>
There are two places that secure boot is referenced.
The nvram template and the firmwaree feature.
Do you have simular settings?
Should I download a new copy of the OS?
I think with secure boot they are talking about the bare metal not working with secure boot.
Where are you downloading the OS ISO from?
Can you share the URL of the page?
I’m hoping that page also has checksums listed that you can check.