[OpenIndiana-discuss] running windows 11 on top of openindiana on my laptop

Marc Lobelle marc.lobelle at uclouvain.be
Thu Jun 12 12:13:29 UTC 2025


Thanks, but I am a new to VirtualBox. How can I tell VirtualBox to 
emulate TPM and a processor of gen 8 (my processor is Core i7 6600U, 
which is gen7, not supported by Win11

Thanks

Marc

On 6/12/25 00:15, serenissi via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> > My laptop has TPM1.2.
>
> Recent enough version of vbox has an option to emulate tpm 
> irrespective of host tpm. Some other hypervisor hosts might have some 
> luck with swtpm.
>
>
> ~ serene
>
> On 6/10/25 13:54, Marc Lobelle via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> Thanks Stephan. My laptop has TPM1.2. I'm not yet sure it can be 
>> upgraded to TPM2.0 required for Win11. The HP tools seem to have 
>> disappeared from the web. I'll try virtualbox.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Marc
>>
>> On 6/10/25 10:56, Stephan Althaus via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>> On 6/10/25 10:51, Marc Lobelle via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> My laptop (HP Elitebook 820 G3 with core i7 6600U @2,6HHz) is 
>>>> running openindiana most of the time but some programs are only 
>>>> available on windows and some times I have to reboot it on windows 
>>>> (currently windows 10). The particularity of this notebook is that 
>>>> it includes 2 SSD disks, a sata (openindiana, 1Tb) and a NVMe 
>>>> (windows 512 Gb).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However I would prefer to run windows in a virtual machine on top 
>>>> of opendiana. Is this possible and, if yes, how ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Marc
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I am using Win10 within VirtualBox. I think you can get this to work 
>>> with Win11 by enabling TPM...
>>>
>>> Bhyve is an other option, then you have to setup Windows via VNC and 
>>> - after anabling net and RDP within Windows - RDP into your virtual 
>>> win11 machine.
>>>
>>> i believe, a test with VirtualBox is an easier start (?)
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Stephan
>>>
>>>
>>>
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