Can I start win 11 in safe mode? If yes, how?

[formidablecatamaran]

Hi,
Want to install certain drivers in Windows and have to start up in safe mode.
How can I do this in BVM?

Thom.

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Thanks for reaching out. This should be easy to do. Before I get into booting into safe mode, here's a word of caution: be aware most windows drivers will not work in ARM64 Windows. You will need windows drivers compiled for ARM64; x86 drivers will not do anything.

To boot into safe mode, you just need to get windows to decide to show you the boot screen. This is best done within windows, either during or after a normal boot. Just as your computer hardware does not have a physical switch on the motherboard to boot into safe mode, QEMU and BVM cannot decide to force windows to boot into safe mode.

So here's a few ways others have reached windows safe mode on a VM:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/ywv5x0/how_do_i_boot_a_windows_vm_into_safe_mode/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41842509/libvirt-kvm-qemu-is-it-possible-to-boot-a-windows-guest-into-safe-mode

[formidablecatamaran]

Thank you for your quick reply, I succeeded to get in safe mode by using msconfig and start up twice while rebooting during windows start up (#7) screen. But... I couldn`t install the drivers I needed without error in the cmd (administrator) :-(