The best way to install and setup a windows 10 vm as a daily driver or a Gaming VM

This is the first part of a two-part video about setting up a Windows 10 KVM VM in unRAID.

The first part of these videos you will learn how to:

1. Download a windows 10 iso.

2. Where to Buy a license for windows 10 pro retail for $16 and the OEM for $11

Here is a new link where you can buy the windows 10.
I have ordered from these guys before and they seem okay :)

3. How to assign resources and correctly pin your cpus.

4. How to install the virtio drivers including the qxl graphics driver.

5. How to remove or block the windows 10 data mining - phone home - etc with anti beacon.

6. How to install multiple useful programmes with ninite

7. Using Splashtop desktop for good quality remote viewing

8. How to install a virtual sound card to have sound in Splashtop/RDP etc.

9. Using mapped drives and symlinks to get the most out of the array.

10. Windows tweaks to VM compatibility.

11. general tips



Thanks to everyone who posted in the forums in my thread for the cpu hyperthreads to be shown in the vm manager. They are now!! Awesome :)

Big thanks to the Limetech Team for unRAID

Music credits BoxCat Games

[belljaf]

Would love to see an update to this for a windows 11 VM in 6.10

[Techielife]

Unraid 6.9 is coming soon and would love to see a new windows 10 or 11 tutorial as a daily driver or a Gaming vm
with gpu passthrough . Can't wait

[edzme]

6 years later and this is still helpful

[jacksontyler]

I was having trouble around 12:30 into the video with getting my virtual disk to populate the assigned storage size. After loading the VirtIO viostor driver the drive would appear, but it would show "0 unallocated drive space".

After doing some digging I found the official unraid docs for setting up a Win10 VM. Their instructions were to load the following drivers in the following order:
1. Balloon
2. NetKVM
3. vioserial
4. viostor (be sure to load this one last)

For each driver that needs to be loaded, you will navigate to the driver folder, then the OS version, then the amd64 subfolder (never click to load the x86 folder)
After each driver is loaded, you will need to click the Browse button again to load the next driver.

This solved my issue- my drive finally appear with the allotted space I had assigned when creating the VM.

[bamsinc]

Spaceinvader One, your channel is seriously one of the best channels on Youtube, keep the good stuff coming

[geekdomo]

They took your advice and the cores are linked now :)

[JustinCreed]

Just paste it in :P

<sound model='ich9'>
</sound>

[MobiusNine]

Looks like your CPU pairings request finally went through with Unraid 6.6.0-rc1!

[gladmanc]

One minor request, that you change your Unraid theme to "Light" during recording, as it can be difficult to see the screen shots; especially if you're flipping from your lighter screen Mac back to Unraid etc. Other than that, your tutorials have taught me a LOT!

[DrDipsht]

Any fixes for the virtual soundcard in 2023? Seems to be broken currently and no known fixes I could find.

[wfp]

A great reveal in the end would be that the Mac he is working on is actually a Hackintosh on the same UnRaid box :-)

[Josecitox]

Fantastic video! You have no idea how perfect the timing for this is, can't wait for the next one.

[Spik.]

I only see
Single: cpu 0
Single: cpu 1
Single: cpu 2
Single: cpu 3


Without the CPU Thread Pairings...

Anyone know what CPU I need to pick for windows 10 VM?
I'm using an Intel® Xeon® E-2224 CPU @ 3.40GHz

thanks!

[mostosi]

Hi Spaceinvader, I'm a beginner and I found your tutorials greats !! They are helping me to build up my unraid server. I have some brief questions for you: Can I create Vdisk on a NVme disk under unassigned disks in unraid ? If yes, then in the " primary VDisk location " I should chose the partition I created on the NVMe, correct ?

[NapalmYourMom]

2023 here - your feature request was applied and now the VM creation automatically pairs the threads when you are selecting them. AWESOME!

[ViszlaBoss]

Hi, great video. How relevant is this in 2023?

[ssinseeme]

important step for newbies like me. when you start your VNC you will have a shell screen. you will have to write exit to get to the next step.

[blackonblack...]

I'm just curious how Linux Mint would look running a VM of Windows 10 Pro. Any body done this and get the same results of 4K gaming at 60fps, no sweat?

[KillaBitz]

It seems that the ability to edit a VM's XML has been removed from the options in the latest RC5 Version.
Is there another way to edit this xml so i can add sound??

[Daqx]

Thank you tons for your UNRAID stuff. Saved me days of frustration.