I need to use a Windows VM to do a few things - I'm on Fedora and my Xbox controller has been glitching out a lot and I need to try updating the firmware. Also, I got a new RGB keyboard and I'm not able to use the proprietary software using Wine and OpenRGB does not support my keyboard (Cosmic Byte GK34 Firefly).
But when I try to install a Win 10 ISO it won't let me past the Microsoft account page and the oobe command that's suggested everywhere on reddit is not working. It says no such command found.
Windows 11 ISOs also aren't working because even if I put 6GB memory and 80GB Storage for the VM (Microsoft lists 4GB and 64GB as requirement) it still says system does not meet requirement. I'm using the Boxes app for the VM creation.
Maybe you can use a public computer at your friendly neighborhood library
It says no such command found.
Make sure you use a back slash and not a forward slash.
oobe\bypassnroi got around this by opening cmd (Shift + F10) during the setup and disabling the network adapter.
wmic nic get name, indexwmic path win32_networkadapter where index = 2 call disableindex will be 1 or 2 probably depending on your setup it was 2 for me. this worked for me recently on boxes on fedora with a win10 iso.
This does work anymore for some ISOs. Depending on the version and Region i actually could not continue without connecting it to the internet. The oobe\bypassnro does work more reliably.
I use win 10 ltsc image, it did not require me to set up an account last time I installed it, maybe try that? You can get it from the mass grave's. Don't forget to enable USB passthrough in your VM manager.
Once the downloads work again, this might help:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/
As for w11 requirements, you also need a uefi, iirc. Here's a random article on doing that: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-win11-in-gnome-boxes.html
