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Notes on configuring VM

I really want to run Windows 11 on my laptop, and the last couple of times that I have tried it I got stuck on the bridge connection.

This is the way that I have finally gotten it working.

What I need

I need to install windows 11 on my Linux Mint laptop and be able to do the following:

  1. Install and run ETAP
  2. Install and run AutoCAD
  3. Connect to the local LAN subnet so I can run Synology Drive

Where I started

I used this post Running Windows 10 in a VM on Linux Mint with KVM, QEMU, and Virt-Manager as the starting point.

I got stuck at the point where I try to install the entire qemu package. It turns out that this package has been changed to qemu-system for this use case. Once I made that modification I can keep going through the steps.

Drivers

The first driver that I need to install is NetKVM to get the network connection started.

Status

At this point I'm pretty much there, there is still an issue where only two vCPUs are showing up, and I think that's because this OS isn't authenticated. I have an NVME that I pulled from a refurbished computer that I may dd to give that a try to see if it fixes something, but that is for a future thing.

For now, having it set up, like this works, even if it is VERY slow.

:wq