We need to manually update our display adapter to use the virtio drivers here. Let’s go through some quality of life tweaks to shape this into something that resembles what VirtualBox provides.įirst, you’ll notice the mouse cursor is very laggy. ![]() Out-the-box, virt-manager has given us a functional - but somewhat user-unfriendly - windows 10 VM. Just finish going about the windows installation as you normally would. Now you should be able to select the new disk image as the windows install location. Select load driver and go ahead and select the E:\amd\w10\viostor.inf controller from the virtio CD we added in the previous step. Now go ahead and begin the installation.ĭuring the windows install process, select custom install. virtio-win-0.1.217.iso as a virtual CD will let you do this. virtio-win-0.1.217.isoĭuring the install process windows won’t be able to see our newly created disk image unless we load the virtio drivers during the install process. When the configure screen pops up, here are the changes you should make: We’ll change our disk and network interface drivers to the virtio alternatives. On the last step, make sure to select customize configuration before install. Since I keep my VMs on a separate disk, I use create custom storage to specify where exactly this image gets created. For storage, the default option will create the new image in your default VM directory. virt-manager should pop up in your applications list as Virtual Machine Manager.įor the RAM and CPU options, I usually select half that of my host machine as I’m always worried about latent windows updates and background processes hogging all my system resources. Launch virt-manager and go ahead and create a new virtual machine. We’ll also need an ISO holding missing drivers for our VM. Basically, we just need qemu, which will be our VM emulator, and virt-manager which will help us streamline the setup and management of our new VM. Make a simple shell script that I can launch from a desktop file so I can access the VM directly without opening up virt-manager.įirst, lets install everything we need on our host machine. ![]() Install virtio and spice-guest-tools drivers to increase performance and give quality of life features like shared clipboards and automatic resolution scaling.Use virt-manager to create the disk image and install Windows 10.There are a few extra pre- and post- setup steps we need to do and a few options on how exactly you run the machine. While QEmu is advertised as running faster, it isn’t quite as user friendly as VirtualBox. I took this as a sign that it’s time to finally switch over to QEmu as my go-to VM platform. ![]() A kernel update on Pop!_OS somehow broke my Windows 10 VMs across both my machines, causing frequent crashes until the disk images finally corrupted and wouldn’t boot anymore. I’ve been faithfully running VirtualBox for my Windows 10 VMs for years… until last week.
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