25.04-RC1 - Cannot Get Windows To Work

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Don’t use NVMe for the Windows installer ISO. It doesn’t work.

GUIDE: How to install/migrate Windows VM to Fangtooth/Incus using Virtio drivers

Here I present multiple ways how to get Windows working on new Incus based VMs in Fangtooth with Virtio devices and drivers. This applies for Fangtooth RC. First some basics. Incus based VM disks (root disk, custom zvol, mounted ISO file etc.) can be of different types based on io.bus setting inside Incus config. TrueNAS sets this by default as nvme. Other options are virtio-scsi or virtio-blk. We are only interested in either nvme or virtio-scsi. nvme is default in TrueNAS. In RC you can c…