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## Creating Windows guests 🪟
# Automatically create Windows guests
`quickget` can download [**Windows
10**](https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10) and
[**Windows 11**](https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11)
automatically and create an optimised virtual machine configuration.
This configuration also includes the [VirtIO drivers for
Windows](https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/).
`quickget` can download [**Windows 10**](https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10) and [**Windows 11**](https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11) automatically and create an optimised virtual machine configuration.
This configuration also includes the [VirtIO drivers for Windows](https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/).
**Windows 8.1** is also supported but doesn't feature any automated
installation or driver optimisation.
**Windows 8.1** is also supported but lacks automated installation or driver optimisation.
`quickget` can also download [Windows 10
LTSC](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-10-enterprise)
and Windows Server
[2012-r2](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2012-r2),
[2016](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2016),
[2019](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2019),
and
[2022](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2022).
`quickget` can also download [Windows 10 LTSC](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-10-enterprise)
and Windows Server [2012-r2](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2012-r2),
[2016](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2016), [2019](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2019), and [2022](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2022).
No automated installation is supported for these releases.
``` shell
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- Username: `Quickemu`
- Password: `quickemu`
### Regional versions
**Regional versions**
By default `quickget` will download the *"English International"*
release (*"English (United States)"* for server releases), but you can
By default `quickget` will download the *"English International"* release (*"English (United States)"* for server releases), but you can
optionally specify one of the supported languages: For example:
``` shell
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- `guest_os="windows"` instructs `quickemu` to optimise for Windows.
- `fixed_iso=` specifies the ISO image that provides VirtIO drivers.
- `tpm="on"` instructs `quickemu` to create a software emulated TPM
device using `swtpm`.
- `tpm="on"` instructs `quickemu` to create a software emulated TPM device using `swtpm`.