04 Create Windows virtual machines

Automatically create Windows guests

quickget can download Windows 10 and Windows 11 automatically and create an optimised virtual machine configuration. This configuration also includes the VirtIO drivers for Windows.

quickget can also download Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022.

NOTE! Windows Server does not have automated installation and does not automatically configure VirtIO as it uses emulated IDE disks and Intel E1000 network devices instead.

quickget windows 11
quickemu --vm windows-11.conf

• Complete the installation as you normally would.
• All relevant drivers and services should be installed automatically.
• A local administrator user account is automatically created, with these credentials:
  • Username: Quickemu
  • Password: quickemu

Regional versions

By default quickget will download the "English International" release ("English (United States)" for server releases), but you can optionally specify one of the supported languages: For example:

quickget windows 11 "Chinese (Traditional)"

The default Windows 11 configuration looks like this:

guest_os="windows"
disk_img="windows-11/disk.qcow2"
iso="windows-11/windows-11.iso"
fixed_iso="windows-11/virtio-win.iso"
tpm="on"
secureboot="off"

• guest_os="windows" instructs quickemu to optimise for Windows.
• fixed_iso= specifies the ISO image that provides VirtIO drivers.
• tpm="on" instructs quickemu to create a software emulated TPM device using swtpm.