An important step here is to download the VirtIO Drivers ISO unRAID must have VMs enabled and configured.Depending on what you plan to do with your VM, you may need to meet other hardware requirements. Your hardware must be capable of processor virtualization (Intel VT-x or AMD-V), and it must be enabled in your BIOS.If you haven’t already, follow the steps here in “Before you shutdown Windows”.

If you upgraded from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 for free this is really important. They’re also useful for anyone running KVM as a hypervisor – not just specific to unRAID. Most of these steps come from the well-written unRAID Manual on Physical to Virtual Machine Conversion – the main thing I add in here are the Windows-specific steps for reducing the size of the virtual machine image. Here are the steps I took to convert that Windows installation into a functioning VM. So, rather than starting over with a fresh Windows installation I took the operating system that was already installed, copied it, and started running it as a virtual machine (VM). I didn’t want to lose that installation and the work put into it. Because I was turning my Windows 10 Pro server into an Linux (unRAID) machine I already had a Windows installation running on the bare metal that I had spent a fair bit of time setting up.