Please be advised, that in particular case install rpmextract results presence bsdtar on the system and extraction of rpms is supported via CLI $ bsdtar -xf *.rpm . The rest of deployment procedure keeps to be the same as on previous versions of Manjaro linux. So the commands which bring you to successful deployment of Windows 11 KVM Guest should be :
~/Downloads > bsdtar -xf virtio-win-0.1.229-1.noarch.rpm
~/Downloads > sudo cp -r usr /
~/Downloads > sudo pacman -S swtpm
~/Downloads >hostnamectl ✔
Static hostname: boris-manjaro
Icon name: computer-desktop
Chassis: desktop 🖥️
Machine ID: 235d4418d2f24e8d9cf80d1967566422
Boot ID: 34c09380dbf646f084dee4abb33b11e4
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
Kernel: Linux 6.5.9-1-MANJARO bsdtar -xf virtio-win-0.1.229-1.noarch.rpm
Architecture: x86-64
Hardware Vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Hardware Model: MS-7C37
Firmware Version: H.60
Firmware Date: Wed 2019-11-06
Firmware Age: 4y 4d
~/Downloads > sudo pacman -S rpmextract ✔
[sudo] password for boris:
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) rpmextract-1.0-9
Total Download Size: 0.00 MiB
Total Installed Size: 0.00 MiB
bsdtar -xf virtio-win-0.1.229-1.noarch.rpm
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
:: Retrieving packages...
rpmextract-1.0-9-any 2.4 KiB 4.62 KiB/s 00:01 [###############################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [###############################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [###############################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [###############################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [###############################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [###############################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) installing rpmextract [###############################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
sudo pacman -S swtpm (1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
~/Downloads ls -l virtio-win-0.1.229-1.noarch.rpm ✔ 12s
-rw-r--r-- 1 boris boris 236828404 Nov 10 10:01 virtio-win-0.1.229-1.noarch.rpm
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Rpmextract would install bsdtar on Manjaro 23.04
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~/Downloads > bsdtar -xf virtio-win-0.1.229-1.noarch.rpm 1 ✘
~/Downloads > ls -l ✔ 10s
total 5666096
drwxr-xr-x 3 boris boris 19 Nov 10 10:12 usr
~/Downloads > sudo cp -r usr / ✔
/usr/share/virtio-win > ls -l ✔
total 522284
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 61 Nov 10 10:15 drivers
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 56 Nov 10 10:15 guest-agent
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 98 Nov 10 10:15 installer
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 534818816 Nov 10 10:15 virtio-win-0.1.229.iso
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 10 10:15 virtio-win.iso -> virtio-win-0.1.229.iso
/usr/share/virtio-win > sudo pacman -S swtpm ✘ 7s
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (2) libtpms-0.9.6-1 swtpm-0.8.1-1
Total Download Size: 0.57 MiB
Total Installed Size: 1.48 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
:: Retrieving packages...
libtpms-0.9.6-1-x86_64 419.2 KiB 446 KiB/s 00:01 [###############################] 100%
swtpm-0.8.1-1-x86_64 163.1 KiB 570 KiB/s 00:00 [###############################] 100%
Total (2/2) 582.4 KiB 401 KiB/s 00:01 [###############################] 100%
(2/2) checking keys in keyring [###############################] 100%
(2/2) checking package integrity [###############################] 100%
(2/2) loading package files [###############################] 100%
(2/2) checking for file conflicts [###############################] 100%
(2/2) checking available disk space [###############################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/2) installing libtpms [###############################] 100%
(2/2) installing swtpm [###############################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/3) Creating system user accounts...
(2/3) Creating temporary files...
(3/3) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
/usr/share/virtio-win > sudo pacman -S edk2-ovmf ✔ 8s
warning: edk2-ovmf-202308-3 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) edk2-ovmf-202308-3
Total Installed Size: 51.52 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [###############################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [###############################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [###############################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [###############################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [###############################] 100%
:: Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Creating Timeshift snapshot before upgrade...
==> skipping timeshift-autosnap due skipRsyncAutosnap in /etc/timeshift-autosnap.conf set to TRUE.
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) reinstalling edk2-ovmf [###############################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
