To create the profile and add the necessary configurations use the following commands: $ lxc profile create windows-required For additional help on creating profiles see the guide Setting instance CPU and memory limits. We will also need to turn secure boot off. We will call this profile windows-required and configure the profile to use 2 CPUs, 4GB or memory, and 30GB of hard disk space. This can be adjusted for your environment. The first profile will set the necessary hardware resources required to run Windows. We will achieve this by creating two profiles that will be attached to the virtual machine. To create the instance use the command: $ lxc init win2019 -empty -vmīefore we start the virtual machine, there are special configurations that need to be setup such as booting from the downloaded ISO files as well as allocating CPU, RAM, and disk space. We will create an empty instance named win2019 and set the instance type to virtual machine. Now that we have all the necessary components downloaded let’s create the virtual machine. The current stable version at the time of this guide is virtio-win-0.1.185.iso. An ISO file of the virtio drivers can be downloaded from. In many virtual environments, the Windows operating system needs to have virtio drivers installed during the installation process to detect hardware such as the hard drive. The ISO filename was very long (5_release_svc_refresh_SERVER_EVAL_圆4FRE_en-us_1.iso) so for the sake of this how-to guide, I renamed it to Server2019.iso. An ISO file needed for the virtual machine can be downloaded from. You will need a license key to use beyond the evaluation period. If you don’t already have an ISO file of the operating system, Microsoft allows users to download an evaluation copy of Windows Server 2019. To install it use the following command: $ sudo apt install virt-viewer I will need to install the Remote Viewer application which will be used to connect to the VGA console of the Windows virtual machine. I will be using Ubuntu 20.04 as my desktop operating system, where I already have LXD installed and initialized. This how-to guide will walk through the steps to get Windows Server 2019 up and running as an LXD virtual machine. With some of the more recent updates to LXD, it is becoming easier to run Windows as a virtual machine.

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