Can't Boot From Win10 Retail USB

[rick.j...@gmail.com]

Successful install of Qubes on a Dell Latitude E6510.

Thought I would attempt a Windows 10 HVM. Creation of the HVM is fine; attempts to boot the VM from the retail media fail. Although Dom0 sees the Microsoft retail USB, and I'm able to create a DD iso from it, I can't seem to get the VM to recognize the boot media when I start.

the VM says:

ata0 slave: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Drive (2048 MBytes)
ata1 slave: QUME DVD-ROM ATAPI-4 CD-Rom/DVD-Rom

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:04.0 CA00PCI2.10 PMM+00100010+00113020 CA00

Press F12 for boot menu

Booting from CD-Rom
14783MB medium detected (this is about the size of the windows USB stick)
CDROM boot failure code: 0005
Boot from CD-Rom failed: could not read the boot disk

Booting from Hard Disk...
Boot from Hard Disk failed: not a bootable disk

No bootable device.
Powering off in 30 seconds.

I've tried what seems like every permutation of adding an argument like --cdrom=/dev/sdb, cdrom=/path/to/win10.iso, drive=cdrom/dev/sdb, etc. I've also used the GUI functions for using these paths as "additional drives."

I am fearing there is some anti-piracy doodad on the retail USB that prevents me from booting unless I'm booting, but I can't think of what that would be.

New guy. If you're going to drop a lot of cli-fu on me, go slowly.

Many thanks,

Rick

[Andrew David Wong]

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There's probably a problem with your ISO. You can download the correct one
legally and for free from Microsoft's website following these instructions:

https://redd.it/4jwlel

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[rick.j...@gmail.com]

That was it precisely. The retail USB contains both the 32- and 64-bit versions. The ISO for just my architecture worked perfectly. Thank you.

[nick...@kulinacs.com]

I do believe only Windows 7 is supported as an AppVM.
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-appvms/

On July 18, 2016 7:54:30 AM CDT, rick.j...@gmail.com wrote:

That was it precisely. The retail USB contains both the 32- and 64-bit versions. The ISO for just my architecture worked perfectly. Thank you. 

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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

[rick.j...@gmail.com]

Win10 runs as an HVM; the devs haven't finished building the Windows Tools for it. Within its limits it is fine.

[Jeremy Rand]

rick.j...@gmail.com:

> Win10 runs as an HVM; the devs haven't finished building the Windows Tools for it. Within its limits it is fine.
>

I can confirm this; I've been running Windows 10 in an HVM for months
with no issues. Windows Tools support would be nice, but for my use
cases being able to test software I write on the latest OS release is a
higher priority, so it's doing its job just fine.

-Jeremy Rand