Kvm with windows 11 guest os

Introduction

There are some extra steps to be done for installing windows 11 guest on KVM. In this post, I will record all the steps I take.

Reference

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Set up

Ubuntu 20.04
i5-13600kf

Steps

Download windows 11 installation ISO from official channel.

Download virtio drivers - page link - download link

Install KVM on Ubuntu 20.04

### Install KVM
$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm bridge-utils virt-manager libosinfo-bin -y

### Configure TPM and Secure-Boot
$ sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
# Put this line to the end of the file
# deb [trusted=yes] http://ppa.launchpad.net/stefanberger/swtpm-focal/ubuntu focal main
$ sudo apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change
# If you see error: NO_PUBKEY, https://askubuntu.com/questions/13065/how-do-i-fix-the-gpg-error-no-pubkey
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys <PUBKEY>
# install the tools
$ sudo apt-get install swtpm-tools -y
$ swtpm --version
# install ovmf if that is not installed by default KVM installation
$ sudo apt-get install ovmf