Is it possible to run a Windows 11 Virtual Machine on Linux?

• quickemu

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  Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.

  

If you want to do this super easily, check out the QuickEmu project with the QuickGUI: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

• virt-manager

  114 2,147 8.8 Python

  Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt

  

I use Virtual Machine Manager which is a front end GUI for QEMU/KVM. I haven't tried Win11, but perhaps you'll have luck with it?

• WorkOS

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• LinuxWin2USB

  1 13 6.5 Python

  a tool that creates a bootable Windows 11 USB using a pure terminal

Try one of those "win2usb" things like this one. I forget which one I tried, but awhile ago I put Windows 11 on a rather old desktop, like gen 3 i5, and I did it by taking out the SATA drive and plugging it into the USB port with an adapter and then using one of those "win2usb" tools to make a "bootable USB" version. I then put the drive back in the computer and it had Windows 11 without issues. You might be able to take the bootable image it creates and get it to boot in the virtual machine.

• swtpm

  14 526 7.7 C

  Libtpms-based TPM emulator with socket, character device, and Linux CUSE interface.

Or you can just add a virtual tpm device in virt-manager while setting up the vm using swtpm. It seems to ha e packages on most major distro's.

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