How To: Use Tiny11 and other customized "win.iso" installation with quickemu

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Disclaimer: I did not build this Tiny11.iso, it was built by NTDev and is available on archive.org. Use it at your own discretion.

After booting the Tiny11.iso the setup should see the virtual disk.

However, the disk does not appear as an installation target.

Will need to manually add the ISO to quickemu configuration after manually obtaining the ISO.

1. Download customized ISO and place into the target quickemu directory - i.e. /vm-images/tiny11/tiny11-x64.iso
2. Create the quickemu config file (copy .conf from an existing quickemu Windows 10 or 11).
3. Edit the the tiny11.conf file to setup the requirements. Here is an example:

#!/usr/bin/quickemu --vm
guest_os="windows"
disk_img="tiny11/disk.qcow2"
disk_size="40G"
iso="tiny11/tiny11-x64.iso"
fixed_iso="windows-10/virtio-win.iso"
ram="8G"
cpu_cores="8"

4. Start it up: $ quickemu --vm tiny11.conf
5. At the installation screen the target disk won't be shown.
   Use the fixed_iso Windows VirtIO iso and hit Load driver then navigate to where already mounted. i.e. E:\amd64\w11, choose the VirtIO SCSI Controller (viostor.inf) file then the disk should appear and now can continue with the installation.
6. After installation has completed and rebooted into the Tiny11 installation, be sure to install full VirtIO drivers off the virtio-win.iso: i.e. virtio-win-gt-x64.msi to allow the PCI drivers to be populated.

Enjoy your new installation!

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