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• virtualization=true is needed for -M virt, else windows installer won’t boot.

• --accel tcg,thread=multi is to speed up emulation

• devices are added for graphics output (ramfb), keyboard/mouse (usb*) and network (-nic)

• pauth-impdef=on speeds up pointer authentication https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/arm/cpu-features.html#tcg-vcpu-features

Run QEMU on aarch64 hardware

In case you have access to a linux-aarch64 machine:

• replace --accel tcg with --accel kvm (or --accel hvf on MacOS)

• remove virtualization=true (won't be available for your cpu/kvm)

• replace cpu with -cpu=host

Setup Windows

Setup will take between 1 and 2 hours on a high end x64 processor. It requires several manual steps.

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