DistroHopper/build-docs/quickemu.1-11-Windowsguests.md

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## [Creating Windows guests](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/04-Create-Windows-virtual-machines) 🪟
`quickget` can download
[**Windows 10**](https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10) and
[**Windows 11**](https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11)
automatically and create an optimised virtual machine configuration.
This configuration also includes the [VirtIO drivers for
Windows](https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/).
**Windows 8.1** is also supported but doesn't feature any automated
installation or driver optimisation.
`quickget` can also download [Windows 10 LTSC](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-10-enterprise) and Windows Server [2012-r2](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2012-r2), [2016](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2016), [2019](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2019), and [2022](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2022). No automated installation is supported for these releases.
``` shell
quickget windows 11
quickemu --vm windows-11.conf
```
- Complete the installation as you normally would.
- All relevant drivers and services should be installed automatically.
- A local administrator user account is automatically created, with
these credentials:
- Username: `Quickemu`
- Password: `quickemu`
Further information is available from the project [wiki](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/wiki/04-Create-Windows-virtual-machines)