Note : The important part is for the KVM to load the windows 10 image from the list. Let’s go ahead and change the Boot order of the device, first being the CDROM1 and the VirtIO disk and the CDROM2. The second CDROM now has VirtIO drivers and the first one has the windows 10 ISO image. Select the storage and click on manage and attach the VirtIO iso file that we have downloaded, and also change the Disk type to CDROM device and click on Finish. Remember that we have downloaded VirtIO Windows drivers for Ubuntu KVM, let’s attach that now. Add the Windows 10 virt drivers and configure the boot loader. In the add New virtual hardware windows, select Graphics and in the Type select VNC Server and click on Finish.Ĭlick on Network interface card (NIC), change the device model to VirtIO, and click on Apply. You now have to add VNC Viewer as the graphics, so click on Add hardware from the bottom left. Select VirtIO as the disk bus, and then click on Apply. In the virtual machine manager window click on create a new virtual machine. Open the virtualization manager and create the VM. You may now go ahead and reboot the host, if you dont reboot the machine then you will end getting a below error. Sudo apt install qemu-kvm bridge-utils virt-manager libosinfo-bin -y

The Same command can be used with as well. On my PC I am using Ubuntu version 20.04 so enter the below commands to install KVM on an ubuntu machine. The first step is to prepare the environment by installing the KVM utilities on the Ubuntu host. Steps to install windows 10 in Ubuntu KVM. W indows virtio drivers iso download latest.ĭownload Spice guest tools. How to install virtio drivers windows 10.ĭownload the Windows ISO image by following the guide here. Install the Redhat SCSI controller driver. Steps to install windows 10 in Ubuntu KVM.

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