Installing Windows on x86

Click the Create Virtual Machine button.

Enter the corresponding architecture.

General Section

OS Section

System Section

Note that we have checked Pre-Enroll Keys (Secure Boot) and added a TPM device

This is because the latest Windows 11 requires TPM and Secure Boot. For Linux, please do not check Pre-Enroll Keys (Secure Boot)

Disks Section

Here we select NVME as the disk, because NVME is essentially driver-free.

We will explain why driver-free is important in future documentation

CPU Section

Then we simply continue with Next Step.

Modifying the Optical Drive

Detach the optical drive and change it to IDE2.

PXVIRT defaults to using scsi2 as the optical drive, but Windows doesn't have default SCSI drivers, which means the ISO won't be recognized. Therefore, we need to change the optical drive to IDE2.

First select scsi2, then click remove. After that, click Add and select cdrom

Then select IDE and choose the ISO

Adjusting Boot Order

In Options, select Boot Order, and move the IDE2 we just added to the top. This means the first boot device is IDE2, which is our ISO.

Now you can start the virtual machine.

Starting the VM

When the virtual machine starts, make sure to press a key when you see "Press any key"

If you don't press a key, you'll see the following error

Be sure to press a key. If you missed it, simply reset the virtual machine. Refer to the button below

After that, it's no different from a normal Windows installation

Of course, you'll need to download KVM drivers to properly support some hardware, such as network cards, serial ports, and other devices. Please refer to the Resources Download section