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doc/instance/create: Cover behavior on Windows
Closes #1768 Signed-off-by: Stéphane Graber <[email protected]>
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### Launch a VM that boots from an ISO
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```{note}
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When creating a Windows virtual machine, make sure to set the `image.os` property to something starting with `Windows`.
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Doing so will tell Incus to expect Windows to be running inside of the virtual machine and to tweak behavior accordingly.
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This notably will cause:
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- Some unsupported virtual devices to be disabled
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- The RTC clock to be based on system local time rather than UTC
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- IOMMU handling to switch to an Intel IOMMU controller
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```
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To launch a VM that boots from an ISO, you must first create a VM.
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Let's assume that we want to create a VM and install it from the ISO image.
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In this scenario, use the following command to create an empty VM:

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