In case you haven’t seen the Windows 7 installer, the steps are below: If you have GNU/Linux, chances are you have installed an OS before. iso of it, then using the disk drive via -cdrom /dev/cdrom will work. ![]() You can set it a little lower if you don’t have much to spare, but if it’s too low you’ll get this screen: Note the -m option is the number of megabytes of RAM to allocate. ![]() Launch the Windows installer in KVM with a command that looks something like this: kvm -hda windows.img -cdrom windows-install-disc.iso -vga std -localtime -net nic,model=ne2k_pci -m 2048 The qcow2 format is suggested for the desktop as it will not expand the file to the full size until the guest uses the space: qemu-img create -f qcow2 windows.img 30G Software setupĮverything required from the host machine can be pulled in via Debian’s qemu-kvm package. Some things are excluded for simplicity: network bridging, para-virtualised disks, migration between hosts, and disk replication. On the desktop, some things are not as important as the server world. The instructions will work with slight modifications for any mix of GNU/Linux and Windows The host here is a Debian box, and the guest is running Windows 7. If you have a Windows install disk and licence at your disposal, then this post will show you how to get a Windows environment running without dual-booting. Sometimes, you need to use a tricky windows-only proprietary program on a GNU/Linux desktop.
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