Windows 10-11 installing issue

[Jonikster]

Hi all,
Using Ubuntu 23.04 I tried to install Windows 10-11:
quickget windows 10
quickget windows 11
Then I try to run:
quickemu --vm windows-10-22H2.conf
Quickemu 4.8 using /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 v7.2.0

• Host: Ubuntu 23.04 running Linux 6.2 (john-Zenbook-UX3402ZA-UX3402ZA)
• CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1240P
• CPU VM: 1 Socket(s), 4 Core(s), 2 Thread(s), 8G RAM
• BOOT: EFI (Windows), OVMF (/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd), SecureBoot (off).
• Disk: windows-10/disk.qcow2 (64G)
  Looks unused, booting from windows-10/Win10_22H2_EnglishInternational_x64v1.iso
• Boot ISO: windows-10/Win10_22H2_EnglishInternational_x64v1.iso
• CD-ROM: windows-10/virtio-win.iso
• Display: SDL, virtio-vga-gl, GL (on), VirGL (on)
• ssh: On host: ssh user@localhost -p 22220
• WebDAV: On guest: dav://localhost:9843/
• Network: User (virtio-net)
• Monitor: On host: nc -U "windows-10/windows-10-22H2-monitor.socket"
  or : socat -,echo=0,icanon=0 unix-connect:windows-10/windows-10-22H2-monitor.socket
• Serial: On host: nc -U "windows-10/windows-10-22H2-serial.socket"
  or : socat -,echo=0,icanon=0 unix-connect:windows-10/windows-10-22H2-serial.socket
  audio: Could not init `pa' audio driver
  cat: windows-10/windows-10-22H2.pid: No such file or directory
• Process: Starting windows-10-22H2.conf as windows-10-22H2 ()
• Sending: sendkey ret
  2023/09/06 14:05:19 socat[22877] E connect(, AF=1 "windows-10/windows-10-22H2-monitor.socket", 43): Connection refused

quickemu --vm windows-11-22H2.conf
Quickemu 4.8 using /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 v7.2.0

• Host: Ubuntu 23.04 running Linux 6.2 (john-Zenbook-UX3402ZA-UX3402ZA)
• CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1240P
• CPU VM: 1 Socket(s), 4 Core(s), 2 Thread(s), 8G RAM
• BOOT: EFI (Windows), OVMF (/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd), SecureBoot (off).
• Disk: windows-11/disk.qcow2 (64G)
  Looks unused, booting from windows-11/Win11_22H2_English_x64v1.iso
• Boot ISO: windows-11/Win11_22H2_English_x64v1.iso
• CD-ROM: windows-11/virtio-win.iso
• Display: SDL, virtio-vga-gl, GL (on), VirGL (on)
• ssh: On host: ssh user@localhost -p 22220
• WebDAV: On guest: dav://localhost:9843/
• TPM: windows-11/windows-11-22H2.swtpm-sock (22183)
• Network: User (virtio-net)
• Monitor: On host: nc -U "windows-11/windows-11-22H2-monitor.socket"
  or : socat -,echo=0,icanon=0 unix-connect:windows-11/windows-11-22H2-monitor.socket
• Serial: On host: nc -U "windows-11/windows-11-22H2-serial.socket"
  or : socat -,echo=0,icanon=0 unix-connect:windows-11/windows-11-22H2-serial.socket
  audio: Could not init `pa' audio driver
  cat: windows-11/windows-11-22H2.pid: No such file or directory
• Process: Starting windows-11-22H2.conf as windows-11-22H2 ()
• Sending: sendkey ret
  2023/09/06 14:02:50 socat[22193] E connect(, AF=1 "windows-11/windows-11-22H2-monitor.socket", 43): Connection refused

Is it possible to fix?
Thanks in advance!

[github-actions]

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[AkechiShiro]

I've ran into the same issue, what can we do to help for more debugging or fix this issue ?

[flexiondotorg]

Please try editing the quickemu config file for Windows 10/11 and changing secureboot="on" to secureboot="off"

[flexiondotorg]

Fixed via #836