Installation Windows 11 VM keeps halting, cannot install files

[Martyzzz]

Hi all,

 

I am trying to install a Windows 11 VM on my new unraid server, it has an i5 12500, ASRock Z790 Pro RS/D4, ATX, S1700 and 32Gb DDR4 ram.

There is a dedicated 1tb nvme drive for the windows vm and the drive gets detected after the virtio drivers are loaded.

The ISO file is in the protected isos share, i have redownloaded this file 3-4 times.

When creating the VM nothing weird happens but when the windows installation begins, after 10% i get an error about necessary files cant be installed and the installation is halted.

I have tried i440 and Q35 bios and different versions, also tried SATA, IDE and SCSI.

I tried different locations for the vdisk.

I tried a windows10 iso.

None of the above works.

HVM and IOMMU is enabled, i do boot in UEFI mode.

 

Any idea what the problem could be?

 

Rgds,

Martijn

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[ryanm91]

Did you try using a single CPU core during install?

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[Kilrah]

52 minutes ago, Martyzzz said:

There is a dedicated 1tb nvme drive for the windows vm and the drive gets detected after the virtio drivers are loaded.

Your setup shows a vdisk file in /mnt/user/domains, didn't you want to pass it through instead?

[Martyzzz]

31 minutes ago, ryanm91 said:

Did you try using a single CPU core during install?

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I did but that didnt work either.

 

I decided to make the USB drive non UEFI and now Windows 11 was installed, weird....

 

Only problem now is that i need network to finish the installation.

[Martyzzz]

23 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Your setup shows a vdisk file in /mnt/user/domains, didn't you want to pass it through instead?

Could do but i dont think it will make that much of a difference

[ryanm91]

I did but that didnt work either.
 
I decided to make the USB drive non UEFI and now Windows 11 was installed, weird....
 
Only problem now is that i need network to finish the installation.

You can bring up a command prompt launch device manager during install and then load virtio drivers.

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[Kilrah]

8 hours ago, Martyzzz said:

Only problem now is that i need network to finish the installation.

You can bypass it easily

 

https://pureinfotech.com/bypass-internet-connection-install-windows-11/#:~:text=a second layout.-,On the “Oops%2C you've lost internet connection”,Windows 11 and press Enter.