Installing Windows Server 2019 Into Qemu With The Virtio Driver

In this video I am installing Windows Server 2019 into Qemu with the virtio block driver, to speed up the disk accesses. Below is the name of the ISO image if you need to do a search for it and then below that is the link to the virtio drivers for Windows. Someone asked for the command line that I used to start up the virtual machine, on my last video, so I have included it, but it is specific to my machine so the bridge name and the path of the ich9 config file will most likely have to be changed.

17763.253.190108-0006.rs5_release_svc_refresh_SERVER_EVAL_x64FRE_en-us.iso

https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virtio/virtio-win.iso

qemu-img create -f qcow2 server-2019.qcow2 200G

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 16384 -M q35 -smp cores=2,threads=2,sockets=1 -enable-kvm -cpu host -net nic,model=e1000,macaddr=72:34:fe:4b:42:2a -net bridge,br=br0 -readconfig /etc/ich9-ehci-uhci.config -device usb-tablet,bus=ehci.0,port=2 -drive file=server-2019.qcow2,if=virtio -cdrom /dev/shm/Server-2019.rs5_release_svc_refresh_SERVER_EVAL_x64FRE_en-us.iso -drive file=virtio-win.iso,index=3,media=cdrom