I’m using fedora 39 on framework 16 (freshly unpacked laptop and downloaded yesterday) I have the win11 iso and was wondering about the steps on how to properly set it up in boxes? what are the ideal settings?
Side question, can I use my secondary 1TB storage dedicated to win11 vm? (primary storage is 1TB as well)
Boxes is really limited. I would use “virt-manager”.
That or use Cockpit, with Cockpit-machines. There you can set up the expansion card as a Storage Volume and put the qcow2 for the Windows 11 install on the expansion card.
If you need help doing any of that just message me.
Fedora 38? Umm why, it has been end of life from May
Sorry I was meant to say 39! As for the reason, is simply because I like to stay one upgrade behind. Its getting support but not being experimented on, I have run into issues on a beta version. I find this to be a sweet spot in terms of stability. But soon when 41 beta is over ill go over to 40 
hehe just thought that was a typo
But you should propably setup libvirt/qemu and use virt-manager to install Windows. It’s much more flexible than Boxes, although Boxes should be able to install Windows too. Haven’t tried Win11 though.
Yep I am setting it up as we speak …BTW thanks knipp30! I prefer libvirt/qemu & virt-manager than Cockpit tho, in saying that, its good to know!
I’ll update and see how it all works out
thanks guys appreciate it
If you’re going to use libvirt/virt-manager (awesome piece of kit, btw) don’t forget to add a TPM in the created VM as well, since Windows 11 requires/wants that. That, and a secure boot bootloader, but that’s just a selection you can make and as far as I know that’s done by default when you select “Windows 11” as the gues OS type.
Just FYI this is done by default when you select Windows 11 as the OS type.
Glad to know! I use cockpit for my headless server (run a couple VMs, and A LOT of containers). Its really nice for setting up storage (pretty easy in virt-manager too… but since its been deprecated in RHEL 9, I moved to cockpit).
It does indeed. It didn’t when I first tried it, but I see the OS definitions have been updated to include the TPM. Nice!
Hey guys I’ve set up my virtual manager it went pretty smoothly except around the network bridge setup these are the commands that helped:
edit network connection with gui
sudo nmtui
view network connections
sudo nmcli device status
Also here are some resources I used that were helpful:
check out the articles in the description of the videos too they go into a bit more detail too!