Windows 11 on Arm Orange Pi 5 MAX (RK3588)

[amrutprabhu]

Hi,

First of all thank you for this port to run Proxmox on arm cpus.

I am little new to proxmox and learning it. I was trying windows 11 based on your guide. https://github.com/jiangcuo/Proxmox-Port/wiki/Windows-11-arm64

Now I updated most of the parameters as per the specs you specified and this is my VM config.

affinity: 4-7
bios: ovmf
boot: order=scsi2;scsi0;net0
cores: 4
efidisk0: local:101/vm-101-disk-0.qcow2,efitype=4m,pre-enrolled-keys=1,size=64M
memory: 4096
meta: creation-qemu=9.0.2,ctime=1728129376
name: Windows11
net0: e1000=BC:24:11:C1:22:49,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
ostype: l26
scsi0: NVME:101/vm-101-disk-0.qcow2,iothread=1,size=60G
scsi2: NVME:iso/virtio-win-0.1.217.iso,media=cdrom,size=519172K
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=11b2035f-1766-4531-b1c9-e6a5eeec1043
sockets: 1
tpmstate0: local:101/vm-101-disk-2.raw,size=4M,version=v2.0
vga: ramfb

I downloaded the iso from here: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/virtio-win-0.1.217-2/

When I start the VM,it just comes to this screen here.

I am not sure what I am missing.
If I am doing some mistake, can you please let me know.

Thanks a lot in advance.

[jiangcuo]

win11 iso？

[amrutprabhu]

win11 iso？

Do you mean the virtio-win.iso that is present in the folder?
I tried that one also.

[x13-me]

You need to provide an OS for the VM to boot, you have not done so.

[amrutprabhu]

@x13-me , I was assuming the provided iso/virtio-win-0.1.217.iso would allow me to start the installation process.. is that not the case?

[x13-me]

@x13-me , I was assuming the provided iso/virtio-win-0.1.217.iso would allow me to start the installation process.. is that not the case?

That is the virtio drivers, not a Windows installer, to quote the instructions you linked:

Add 1 scsi-cdrom to boot from win11 iso.

You need to add an OS to boot.

[amrutprabhu]

@x13-me , I was assuming the provided iso/virtio-win-0.1.217.iso would allow me to start the installation process.. is that not the case?

That is the virtio drivers, not a Windows installer, to quote the instructions you linked:

Add 1 scsi-cdrom to boot from win11 iso.

You need to add an OS to boot.

I added a new scsi-cdrom with a windows 11 iso I downloaded from Microsoft's site and when I try to start the VM, it starts but still shows the same screen from above.

Here is the updated config I have right now.

affinity: 4-7
bios: ovmf
boot: order=scsi1;scsi0
cores: 4
memory: 4096
meta: creation-qemu=9.0.2,ctime=1728129376
name: Windows11
net0: e1000=BC:24:11:C1:22:49,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
ostype: l26
sata0: NVME:iso/virtio-win-0.1.217.iso,media=cdrom,size=519172K
scsi0: NVME:101/vm-101-disk-0.qcow2,size=70G
scsi1: NVME:iso/Win11_24H2_English_x64.iso,media=cdrom,size=5683090K
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=11b2035f-1766-4531-b1c9-e6a5eeec1043
sockets: 1
vga: ramfb

I am not sure if I am missing something.

[x13-me]

@x13-me , I was assuming the provided iso/virtio-win-0.1.217.iso would allow me to start the installation process.. is that not the case?

That is the virtio drivers, not a Windows installer, to quote the instructions you linked:

Add 1 scsi-cdrom to boot from win11 iso.

You need to add an OS to boot.

I added a new scsi-cdrom with a windows 11 iso I downloaded from Microsoft's site and when I try to start the VM, it starts but still shows the same screen from above.

Here is the updated config I have right now.

affinity: 4-7
bios: ovmf
boot: order=scsi1;scsi0
cores: 4
memory: 4096
meta: creation-qemu=9.0.2,ctime=1728129376
name: Windows11
net0: e1000=BC:24:11:C1:22:49,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
ostype: l26
sata0: NVME:iso/virtio-win-0.1.217.iso,media=cdrom,size=519172K
scsi0: NVME:101/vm-101-disk-0.qcow2,size=70G
scsi1: NVME:iso/Win11_24H2_English_x64.iso,media=cdrom,size=5683090K
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=11b2035f-1766-4531-b1c9-e6a5eeec1043
sockets: 1
vga: ramfb

I am not sure if I am missing something.

That looks to be an x86_64 iso, you'll need the Arm64 iso instead

[amrutprabhu]

Thank you for this @x13-me .
It worked and I was able to enter the setup.
I thought since the guide was made in Jan, there was no amr64 iso available , So I assumed it was x86 image. That was my bad.

Now it shows me this asking me for some drivers.

I selected the virtio drivers drive but nothing happened. , Do you know how to solve this?

[x13-me]

Thank you for this @x13-me . It worked and I was able to enter the setup. I thought since the guide was made in Jan, there was no amr64 iso available , So I assumed it was x86 image. That was my bad.

Now it shows me this asking me for some drivers.

I selected the virtio drivers drive but nothing happened. , Do you know how to solve this?

Are you using an appropriate arm64 build of the virtio drivers? The x86_64 ones will not work on ARM.

[amrutprabhu]

@x13-me , I was using the virtio drivers from here: https://github.com/virtio-win/virtio-win-pkg-scripts/blob/master/README.md

I used specifically this link: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virtio/virtio-win.iso
I did search for the arm64 build, But I could not find anything specifically mentioning amr64.

Are you aware of any link where I could get it?

[x13-me]

@x13-me , I was using the virtio drivers from here: https://github.com/virtio-win/virtio-win-pkg-scripts/blob/master/README.md

I used specifically this link: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virtio/virtio-win.iso I did search for the arm64 build, But I could not find anything specifically mentioning amr64.

Are you aware of any link where I could get it?

You'll have to look through the relevant source trees, and probably build it yourself, fedora may include it in their upstreams, i don't know for certain.