Windows 10 VM with Qemu

Not booting from ISO

Switch from UEFI to BIOS

Valid Key

4X7WM-GTH3D-DWVCV-H382J-HPMRD

Bypass Microsoft Account Requirement

shift + f10 to open command prompt during setup
oobe\bypassnro
shift + f10 again to open command prompt
ipconfig /release to disconnect the internet
Continue with limited setup

Create installer iso

mkisofs -o ~/Downloads/win-install.iso /tmp/windows-installers/

Snapshot qcow2 storage

# list
qemu-img snapshot -l win10.qcow2

# create 
qemu-img snapshot -c $SNAPSHOT_NAME $DISK_IMAGE

# apply
qemu-img snapshot -a $SNAPSHOT_NAME $DISK_IMAGE

# delete
qemu-img snapshot -d \
  $SNAPSHOT_NAME \
  $DISK_IMAGE

Setup

Install and configure windows as normal to start. Boot into the installation and finish the setup.

Auto resize display

Ensure the video device is set to "QXL" on the host
Download virt-win-guest-tools and install on guest
Download spice-guest-tools and install on guest
Shutdown the guest machine
view -> Scale Display -> Auto resize VM with window
Start the guest machine, it should now auto resize

virtio network driver

Download virt-win-guest-tools and install on guest
Shutdown the guest machine
Change the network device model to virtio
Start the guest machine

virtio boot disk

Attempted virt-win-guest-tools install but boots with boot_device_not_found error

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