Windows 11 - won't start

[mtkraai]

I'm torn whether to open a bug report or just a discussion. I told my daughter that this should be easy with this tool, everything should be set up correctly.

Using Quickgui, we go through the steps to download Windows 11 US English. It won't start.

I go to the terminal and run

quickemu --vm windows-11-English-United-States.conf

I get this message:

qemu-system-x86_64: -drive media=cdrom,index=0,file=windows-11-English-United-States/windows-11.iso: Could not open 'windows-11-English-United-States/windows-11.iso': No such file or directory

Here's the full output:

$ quickemu --vm windows-11-English-United-States.conf 
Quickemu 4.9.9 using /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 v7.0.0
 - Host:     Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS running Linux 5.15.0-170-lowlatency wildcat
 - CPU:      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10610U CPU @ 1.80GHz 
 - CPU VM:   host, 1 Socket(s), 2 Core(s), 2 Thread(s)
 - MSR:      WARNING! Ignoring unhandled Model-Specific Registers is disabled.

             echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs

             If you are unable to run macOS or Windows VMs then run the above 👆
             This will enable ignoring of unhandled MSRs until you reboot the host.
             You can make this change permanent by running: 'quickemu --ignore-msrs-always'
 - RAM VM:   8G RAM
 - BOOT:     EFI (Windows), OVMF (/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd), EFI Vars (windows-11-English-United-States/OVMF_VARS.fd), SecureBoot (off).
 - Disk:     windows-11-English-United-States/disk.qcow2 (64G)
             Looks unused, booting from windows-11-English-United-States/windows-11.iso
 - CD-ROM:   windows-11-English-United-States/virtio-win.iso
 - Display:  GTK, virtio-vga-gl, GL (on), VirGL (on) @ (1280 x 800)
 - Sound:    intel-hda (hda-micro)
 - ssh:      On host:  ssh user@localhost -p 22220
 - WebDAV:   On guest: dav://localhost:9843/
 - smbd:     On guest: smb://10.0.2.4/qemu
 - TPM:      windows-11-English-United-States/windows-11-English-United-States.swtpm-sock (7645)
 - Network:  User (virtio-net-pci)
 - Monitor:  On host:  socat -,echo=0,icanon=0 unix-connect:windows-11-English-United-States/windows-11-English-United-States-monitor.socket
 - Process:  ERROR! Failed to start windows-11-English-United-States.conf as windows-11-English-United-States

qemu-system-x86_64: -drive media=cdrom,index=0,file=windows-11-English-United-States/windows-11.iso: Could not open 'windows-11-English-United-States/windows-11.iso': No such file or directory
matt@wildcat:~/virtual-machines$ quickget --version
4.9.9
matt@wildcat:~/virtual-machines$ quickemu --version
4.9.9

Quickgui: 1.2.10

Am I missing something, or is this a bug?

[codayon]

Probably, the iso file is missing. You can manually download the iso and rename it to windows-11.iso and put it inside windows-11-English-United-States/ directory. Sharing the config file will also be useful, in your case windows-11-English-United-States.conf.