How To Install Microsoft Windows 11 On VirtualBox [2023]

Last Updated on January 29, 2023 by itsubuntu

In this tutorial post, we are going to show you the step-by-step guide to installing Microsoft Windows 11  on VirtualBox 6.1. This is a very simple and easy way to install the latest version of Windows on VirtualBox.

How To Install Microsoft Windows 11 On VirtualBox [2023]

Let’s have a look at the step-by-step guide to installing Microsoft Windows 11 on VirtualBox by Oracle.

Windows 11 Specs and System Requirements

• 4GB of RAM
• 64GB of storage
• UEFI Secure Boot enabled and supported
• A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0
• A DirectX 12-compatible GPU with a WDDM 2.0 driver
• A 720p display larger than 9 inches in size
• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with 2 or more cores on a  compatible 64-bit processor

Minimum requirements to install Microsoft Windows 11 on VirtualBox

• RAM: 4GB (minimum)
• EFI (Special OSes only) enabled
• CPU: 2 processor
• 64 GB Virtual Disk (minimum size)
• Video Memory: 256MB
• Graphics Controller: VBoxSVGA
• Enable 3D Acceleration enabled

Now let’s start by adding “Microsoft Windows 11” ISO as “virtual cd-rom” and start the process to install.

1. Click next to show up the “Install now” button. Now here is the trick as you need to press “Shift+F10” on your keyboard at the same time to launch a command prompt.
2. In the command prompt, you need to type “regedit” and press enter to launch the Windows Registry Editor. In Windows Registry Editor,  Go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup“, right-click on the “Setup” key and select “New => Key“. You need to put the new key name as a LabConfig and press enter.
3. Now you need to right-click on the “LabConfig” key and select “New => DWORD  (32-bit)” value and create a value named “BypassTPMCheck“, and set its data to “1“.
4. You also need to create the “BypassRAMCheck” and “BypassSecureBootCheck” values and set also their data to “1“.
5. Now close the “Registry Editor“, and exit from “Command Prompt“.
6. Now you can continue to install Windows 11 on VirtualBox by clicking on the “Install now” button.