Once you have all of the various parts downloaded (and installed where necessary), you’ll need to perform the following steps to eventually end up with your custom ISO with virtio drivers. ImgBurn is required to pack your drivers and ISO into a single ISO package and is available here: Putting It All Together The drivers themselves can be found in a number of places on the Internet, but the best place I’ve found has been the Fedora Project website: Download and Install ImgBurn Feel free to make something amusing up, and use a burner email service such as below so you don’t receive their spam: Microsoft will ask you for your details before allowing you to download any of the above ISOs. At time of writing, you can get most ISOs for free from Microsoft, and either use the trial version for a short while or purchase your own licence. To create a custom ISO you’ll need a vanilla version of the Windows OS you are planning to install. The following post will cover using that ISO to create a VM. This will be the first in a two-part series and will cover creating and uploading the custom ISO. Hopefully, others will find this useful as well. To remedy this, I decided to write a how-to on the process, so I’d be able to follow it again in the future. In the past, I’ve had difficulty creating Windows virtual machines with Vultr and other VPS providers which require the creation of a custom ISO that includes the virtio drivers.
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