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    How to run Windows 11 on ARM in QEMU 6.1 on Apple Silicon Mac


Follow the excellent gist here, up to and including step 7 : https://gist.github.com/niw/e4313b9c14e968764a52375da41b4278


I converted my VHDX to qcow2 - I doubt if that's significant, but YMMV:


./qemu-img convert -p -O qcow2 ~/Windows11_InsiderPreview_Client_ARM64_en-us__22454-orig.VHDX Windows11.img


Run qemu with a slightly modified command-line. It may not be the most efficient, but it worked for me:

./qemu-system-aarch64 \
  -monitor stdio \
  -M virt,highmem=off \
  -accel hvf \
  -cpu host \
  -smp 8 \
  -m 8192 \
  -drive file=pflash0.img,format=raw,if=pflash,readonly=on  \
  -drive file=pflash1.img,format=raw,if=pflash \
  -device ramfb \
  -device qemu-xhci \
  -device usb-kbd  \
  -device usb-tablet \
  -device intel-hda \
  -device hda-duplex  \
  -nic user,model=virtio  \
  -drive file=Windows11.img,format=qcow2,if=none,id=boot \
  -device nvme,drive=boot,serial=boot \
  -boot c \
  -drive file=spice-guest-tools-0.164.iso,media=cdrom,if=none,id=drivers \
  -device usb-storage,drive=drivers


Boot Windows and run the spice tool setup to install drivers to enable NICs, etc.