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guofangandClaude Sonnet 5.5 b073d87a56 Disable the HVF in-kernel irqchip for Windows 11 on macOS and document why
With the HVF in-kernel GICv3, QEMU's usb-storage races on the status packet
and Windows Setup stalls 10 s after every burst of reads when installing from
the ISO (utmapp/UTM#7970). Use the emulated interrupt controller until
upstream QEMU gets the fix from the UTM fork. Record the investigation in
windows11-arm64-install-speed.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-23 23:17:55 +08:00

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# macOS host, arm64 part of the Windows 11 QEMU configuration; read after windows11.ini.
# Accelerators are tried in order: HVF on macOS, else emulation.
[accel]
accel = "hvf"
[accel]
accel = "tcg"
# With the HVF in-kernel GICv3, QEMU's usb-storage races on the status packet
# and Windows Setup stalls 10 s after every burst of reads (utmapp/UTM#7970),
# so use the emulated interrupt controller; upstream QEMU only gets the fix
# from the UTM fork.
[machine]
type = "virt"
kernel-irqchip = "off"
# The "virt" machine has no IDE. NVMe and USB mass storage (used by the
# installation media of --install-from-iso) both have inbox Windows drivers.
[device "system_disk-dev"]
driver = "nvme"
drive = "system_disk"
serial = "win11disk"
bootindex = "1"
# Windows has no inbox driver for virtio-net; the guest tools installed by
# Configure-Windows.ps1 provide it.
[device "nic0"]
driver = "virtio-net-pci"
netdev = "net0"
# Unlike q35, "virt" has no default GPU or keyboard. virtio-gpu is the only
# display, driven by viogpudo (installed by Configure-Windows.ps1). ramfb is not
# added because Windows would then see a second adapter with a fixed-mode
# monitor. xres/yres set the preferred mode in the EDID (QEMU defaults to
# 1280x800); viogpudo accepted 1920x1200 and 2048x1280 but not 2560x1600.
[device "gpu0"]
driver = "virtio-gpu-pci"
xres = "2048"
yres = "1280"
[device "kbd0"]
driver = "usb-kbd"