Workstation/qemu_win10_vm.md

Windows 10 VM with Qemu

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

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

virtio network driver

1. Download virt-win-guest-tools and install on guest
2. Shutdown the guest machine
3. Change the network device model to virtio
4. Start the guest machine

virtio boot disk

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

Auto login at boot

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

1. Add a key: AutoAdminLogon, string, 1
2. Add a key: DefaultUserName, string, autoadmin
3. Add a key: DefaultPassword, string, autopassword