Comments on: Windows 10 ARM64 on QEMU

By: wallace

wallace — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:15:02 +0000

Dear congratulations for the tutorial, you have several code on the internet to start the system qemu system arch64 ….. etc. As you made available to more lay people, could you put a better step by step? I downloaded windows and QEMU, how do I start the system using qemu? where do i have to put the EFI files, in the same directory of the system?

By: tenox

tenox — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:08:31 +0000

In reply to Nicolas.

there is an option to mount a local folder as a drive in the guest

Create a folder and add the following option:
-hdb fat:rw:folder_name

This will create a second FAT32 formatted disk, that maps your image\
directory to the QEMU virtual machine. In our case, Windows 10 will see it
and make it automatically accessible as “QEMU VVFAT (D:)”. You can even
use this to write file from the VM to the host (though, depending on how
fast Windows flushes its disk cache, they may take a while to appear).

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:04:39 +0000

Once booted, how do you transfer files from the host to the emulated machine? There is no network, and I need to test some arm64 builds I have made on the host.

By: Matt Suiche

Matt Suiche — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 04:17:06 +0000

@oscar > Just add the following line, it worked for me.
-machine highmem=off ^

Although, I don’t think the virtio-win drivers are install in this build

By: oscar

oscar — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 19:13:39 +0000

strangely doesn’t work with latest qemu 3.0 windows..
also had older qemu 2.10 floating around and doesn’t work..
so seems only qemu 2.11 and possibly 2.12 work..
any clue as to why 3.0 doesn’t work?

By: Googulator

Googulator — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 19:38:46 +0000

In reply to Chris M..

Native ARM64 binaries run just fine on this, as long as you don’t install Windows 10 S or enable “S mode” in recent builds.

ARM32 binaries are also supported using the same WoW64 mechanism that runs x86 binaries on x64. Unfortunately x64 binaries aren’t currently supported (due to the binary translator being based on Connectix, which is 32-bit only).

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 05:55:18 +0000

Can you domain join the comptuer and run Group Policy on it?

By: Chris M.

Chris M. — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 14:40:00 +0000

I keep hearing conflicting reports that Microsoft is going to limit running true ARM Win32 API binaries from running on this, limiting native software to Metro/Modern APIs instead (and leaving Win32 stuff to being x86 emulated apps only). It would be a shame, as many programs just need a re-compile to run on ARM.

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:45:51 +0000

Awesome work, Antoni!

Thanks to your image, I was finally able to test the ARM64 version of Rufus, and confirm that it worked. 🙂

By: bbslovag

bbslovag — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 07:07:14 +0000

Cool