I don’t need this features for my use case, so I choose performance over features. The qcow2 format offers some advanced features such as copy on write and live snapshots (Source: proxmox). For best performance choose the raw format. You should check the minimum requirements for the operating system you are going to install. Now just select the path to the directory.Īfter the storage pool is created, select it on the left side of the window and klick on the plus button above the right table to create a new storage volume. You need to give it a name - in my case kvm_storage. The simples one is is the Filesystem Directory, which I’ll use. Here you can select all kinds of storage pool types. To do so, click on the plus button on the bottom left. The first thing to do here is to create a new storage pool. The window mainly consists of two parts - Storage pools on the left and the storage volumes on the left side. We are going to create a custom storage by clicking on Manage.Ī new window Choose Storage Volume will pop up. The next step is to select the storage of the virtual machine, which also means where the VM’s image should be stored. It shows the hosts ressources as little gray text under the input fields. In the next step you need to select how much RAM and how many CPU cores the VM should have. Select the option Local install media and choose the Windows 10 ISO. In this case we use a Windows 10 ISO image. The first thing you have to do is to select how you would like to install the operating system. Click on the upper left button to open the New VM window.

To create a new virtual machine start “Virtual Machine Manager”, which opens up a simple GUI. VT-x / AMD-V) in your BIOS / UEFI settings before you continue (thanks for the tip to include this in the note). Sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin bridge-utils virt-manager qemu virt-viewer spice-vdagent

Windows 10 virtual machine