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Windows 10/11 installation - Hard disk is not recognized

Open dogcity opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Hello everyone, I am looking for help .... I need to install windows virtual machine, I have tried with win10 and win11, but it does not detect the hard disk to make the installation.... could someone help me with this?

I have macbook m1 pro and want to install windows 10 or 11 preferably amd64 if not arm. UTM version 4.2.5

attached installation image and config.plist file

Thanks. Captura de pantalla 2023-06-22 a la(s) 09 17 09 config.plist.zip

dogcity avatar Jun 22 '23 13:06 dogcity

I'd suggest downloading and then mounting the guest tools as another CD drive. The latest version seems to be 0.164.4. Not sure if windows includes drivers for qemu's nvme drive.

Then, you can Browse for more drivers and, after pointing it to the drive, it should load the driver and show the hard drive.

Hope it still helps.

SConaway avatar Jul 03 '23 15:07 SConaway

help it is not working

mohamedmostafa1386 avatar Sep 20 '23 07:09 mohamedmostafa1386

If you are installing windows on macbook M1 You may encounter an error Hard disk not recognised, This is because to install drivers you need to separately download spice tools drivers. To directly start download click on this link: https://github.com/utmapp/qemu/releases/download/v7.0.0-utm/spice-guest-tools-0.164.4.iso

Open your virtual machine and select on drive Image options Screenshot 2024-02-12 at 12 32 39 AM click on change spicetool

then select the spice guests tool file and click open Screenshot 2024-02-12 at 12 31 28 AM

now go in finder and click to install, then it will be automatically rebooted and drivers will be installed. Hope it helps.

amnaahmad20 avatar Feb 11 '24 19:02 amnaahmad20