Several questions about BVM. #181
|
Hello, i recently discovered this project by trying to installing windows server 2025 on my raspberry pi (this will be one of my questions), i tested this project with a windows 11 arm64 image it's work very good, this is really impressive, but i have some questions about it. Does it's possible to do ethernet bridge with bvm? I would like to create a home server with windows server 2025 arm64 (i have a old insider copy, if anyone has the 26501.1000 version iso please send it). |
Replies: 8 comments 1 reply
Yes. See the FAQ.
Honestly I'm surprised that you succeeded in running a recent x64 windows installation on a Pi at all. BVM won't run it faster. You should be using an ARM64 windows image.
Read the FAQ. Here is the link to the FAQ: #35 |
|
Thanks you very much for your help, i will update it in the next days if i have any problems, i first need to find a way to remove the timebomb of my windows server insider build (26212.5000.240503) and i will try what you said after. |
|
|
|
Could you send me the download link for that ISO? I've not seen bvm make that error before on a windows installer image. If it's actually a good ISO, I can fix bvm to make this error non-fatal. |
|
Oh yes sure let me find it, i found it on archive.org, because it's no longer available on uupdump.net sadly https://archive.org/details/windows-server-build-26470 Oh yes also, this build has a timebomb. So i don't know if it's matter or not. |
|
Another quick question, i noticed in the config file we can create a user, to prevent creating one i need to mark it as commentary, because, if i create one like it's windows server i don't think i will access to all windows server features, and if i don't create one, do i will get the oobe? |
|
In commit b4145f2 I've made the changes necessary to get past the Regarding your question about how to not let BVM create a user: you should probably just leave it alone. The user created has admin privileges. I would suggest trying it with the defaults, and only if you encounter issues start modifying files. Also commenting out the username and password in the config file won't do anything. If you actually want to try that, you would need to edit the |
|
After that change, BVM runs the Windows Server ISO perfectly. |
|
Yes, i installed it successfully it on my raspberry pi (thanks you for doing your hard work at the same time), i am currently searching to debomb this iso, the timebomb is "soon" (11 august 2026), i also need to check in the faq for the network bridge and the speed of file transfer between a computer and the virtual machine. But really thanks you very much for your commit!!! Update: Bridge lan working. |
Yes. See the FAQ.
Honestly I'm surprised that you succeeded in running a recent x64 windows installation on a Pi at all. BVM won't run it faster. You should be using an ARM64 windows image.