Setup Win11 VM in Virtualbox

> Austin.Lai |
> -----------| February 10th, 2024
> -----------| Updated on February 10th, 2024

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Table of Contents

• Setup Win11 VM in Virtualbox
  • Table of Contents
  • Disclaimer
  • Description
  • virtualbox import and modifyvm powershell script

Disclaimer

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Description

This project/repository is a local setup of Win11 VM in Virtualbox.

Note:

• The configurations in this project/repository are for your reference ONLY (the reasons are as follows):

  • The setup is hosted in Virtual Machine environment, leveraging Virtualbox on a Windows host.

  • You can download Win11 Virtualbox VM from Official Windows 11 development environment Virtual Machines.

  • This setup require you to configure two network interfaces for the Win11 Virtualbox VM:

    1. VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter (192.168.56.0/24)
    2. NAT

  • This setup has a virtualbox-import-and-modifyvm powershell script:

    • virtualbox import and modifyvm powershell script

  • Please change the configuration accordingly to suits your hosting environment.

virtualbox import and modifyvm powershell script

This powershell script will extract the Win11 VirtualBox VM archive to the specified folder and import to VirtualBox.

Then, it will change the configuration accordingly:

• Enable Hot-Pluggable HHD
• Use USB3 instead of USB1
• Enable clipboard and drag-and-drop functionality with cidirectional
• Enable hardware clock in UTC time
• Enable audio with "dsound" driver along with audio input and audio output
• Set Network Adapter 1 to "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter"
• Set Network Adapter 2 to "NAT"
• Enable Remote Display Server with port 5955 and use "guest" authentication method
• Enable share folder with auto-mount

The virtualbox-import-and-modifyvm.ps1 file can be found here or below:

Click here to expand for the "virtualbox-import-and-modifyvm.ps1" !!!

# Define paths and variables
$archivePath = "C:\WinDev2401Eval.VirtualBox.zip"
$extractedPath = "C:\virtual-machines-storage"
$ovaFilePath = "C:\virtual-machines-storage\WinDev2401Eval.ova"

# Set VM name
$vmName = "WinDev2401Eval"

# Extract the zip archive
Expand-Archive -Path $archivePath -DestinationPath $extractedPath -Confirm

# Import the virtual machine to VirtualBox
VBoxManage import "$ovaFilePath"

Start-Sleep -Seconds 2

# Attach the virtual machine to grouping
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --groups "/Windows_VM/Win11_Normal_Use"

# Enable hot-pluggable hard disk
VBoxManage storageattach "WinDev2401Eval" --storagectl "SATA Controller" --device 0 --port 0 --type hdd --hotpluggable on

# Select USB3 Controller
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --usbxhci on

# Enable shared clipboard and drag-and-drop
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --clipboard bidirectional
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --draganddrop bidirectional

# Enable hardware clock in UTC time
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --rtcuseutc on

# Enable audio with Host Audio Driver = Windows DirectSound
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --audio "dsound"
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --audioin on
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --audioout on

# Change Network Adapter 1 to host-only
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --nic1 hostonly --hostonlyadapter1 "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter"

# Change Network Adapter 2 to NAT
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --nic2 nat

# Configure remote server
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --vrde on
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --vrdeport 5955
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --vrdeauthtype guest
VBoxManage modifyvm $vmName --vrdemulticon on

# Enable shared folder
VBoxManage sharedfolder add $vmName --name "virtual-machines-storage" --hostpath "C:\virtual-machines-storage" --automount
VBoxManage sharedfolder add $vmName --name "host-c" --hostpath "C:\" --automount

Write-Host "WinDev2401Eval virtual machine configuration completed."