Let’s attach the Windows 11 ISO image to the VirtualBox storage as CDROM. We have downloaded the windows 11 iso already, however we have not attached that into the virtualbox. Right-click on the VM that we just created and click on settings.Īnd the settings, click on system and click on Processor.īased on your requirement, you may increase the CPU, and I am giving 4 CPUs cos I have about 12 cores in my machine. You can still run the VM with a dual CPU, since I have enough CPU cores I am going to give 4 Processors. Change CPU cores.īy default Windows 11 picked up 2 CPUs during the VM creation. Let’s make some more changes before you proceed with the installation. Configure the Windows 11 Virtual machine.
In case you would like to increase or decrease the Storage, you may do so here, however, 80GB is recomended. By default, VirtualBox picked up the 80GB of Storage, and I am okay to leave the default and click on Next. You may enter the virtual hard disk capacity here. So instead of choosing the VirtualBox default virtual hard disk format VDI, I am selecting the VMDK format and clicking on Next.Ĭhoose dynamically allocated and click on Next. Though I am creating this VM on VirtualBox, I need the flexibility to move this VM from VirtualBox to other hypervisors such as VMware workstations, or KVM, and so on in the future. We will create the virtual hard disk for the VM, so choose to create a virtual hard disk now and click on Create. Since I have plenty of memory on my machine. You may provide memory for the VM based on your requirements, It is recommended to have at least 4GB of RAM for Windows 11 to work fine. We are now going to configure the Memory and Hard disk for the virtual machine. Configure the required memory and Hard disk.
The Virtual machine creation wizard will now open, you have to modes to install the VM, either expert mode or guided mode. Install VirtualBox guest additions on windows11.Bypass TPM and SecureBoot in Windows11.Begin the Windows 11 installation in VirtualBox.Configure the Windows 11 Virtual machine.Configure the required memory and Hard disk.Steps to install Windows 11 on Oracle Virtualbox.
Follow the article here on how to download the windows 11 iso image officially from Microsoft.
If you are using Windows 10 on your physical machine and wanted to upgrade to Windows 11, you may do so by following the guide here. If you are using a Linux host, instead of using VirtualBox, I would recommend you to use KVM instead, and you can see here how you can install windows 11 on KVM step by step, you can enable TPM and secure boot on KVM as well. If in case you are using a VMware workstation on your machine and wanted to install windows 11 on it, you may check out the article here to learn more, because VMware workstation 16 supports TPM and Secure boot. The VirtualBox can be installed on it and run your favorite operating system in it. It doesn’t matter what host operating system you use, whether Windows, MAC, or Linux. One of the reasons people prefer to use VirtualBox over other hypervisors is that it is free for anyone to use it. I have been running official windows 11 on VirtualBox for quite some time now and it works great. There are alternate ways to still install Windows 11 on Virtualbox, and we are going to follow easy steps, which we will perform during the installation, and you will be able to install the windows 11 operating system successfully. Can we install the Windows 11 VirtualBox without TPM and secureBoot ?
Soon after, there was an update from Oracle that they are working on it to provide the TPM and secure-boot to the VirtualBox, however, that will be on version 7, and at the time of this writing, the latest version is 6.31 and it is still doesn’t have TPM and secure boot support. without which you cannot install windows 11 on VirtualBox.
When Microsoft officially launched the windows 11 iso to the public, it ‘was and still is’ not compatible with the VirtualBox, As Microsoft made sure TPM and the Secure boot are the important pre-requisites even for you to proceed with the installation.