I need help getting Windows 10 to install on my KVM.

When the machine starts it shows the Windows loading screen for a second and immediately shows a BSOD “SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED”.

I’ve tried multiple ISOs, modded and vanilla, based on different updates of Windows 10 and 11, I can’t even get into the setup at any of them, any help appreciated.

QEMU Settings are:

Chip: Q35
FW: BIOS (UEFI only gives shell with any UEFI options)
CPU: 4 vCPU (Default setting I think)
RAM: 8 Gigs

Boot settings: No boot menu

#1 SATA CD-ROM (Windows ISO)
#2 SATA HDD (empty 300GB qcow2)
#3 SATA CD-ROM (VirtIO drivers)

Network is default

Video is VirtIO, tried all the other options too, but to no avail

HOST runs on:

OS: Arch Linux 6.5.5-zen1-1-zen
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600
RAM: 16GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (Nouveau driver)

UPDATE: After failing multiple times, formatting my drive, installing Fedora, trying and failing again, formatting my drive again, reinstalling Arch, I have enough. I’ll just continue to dual boot for the time being until I get a new CPU.

  • °˖✧ ipha ✧˖°
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    1 year ago

    Have you tried with a stock kernel instead of zen?

    And windows doesn’t support virtio video, use qxl.

    • StarDreamer
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      11 year ago

      Zen kernel should be fine. I’ve been running it for 4 years and haven’t had any issues specific to zen.

    • DaveedMeeOP
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      11 year ago

      I’ve tried on zen and lts, I don’t have the stock kernel

      Windows does support VirtIO if you load the drivers at setup. QXL doesn’t help either, also tried VGA, same problem.