On 10/25/22 03:51, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Samuel Sieb writes:
On 10/24/22 21:26, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 10/24/22 21:09, Slade Watkins via users wrote:
On 10/24/22 11:38 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Is there a way to tape a native Windows hard
drive and port it to qemu-kvm?
Hm. Did a bit of digging... this is all I could find.
https://manuel.kiessling.net/2013/03/19/converting-a-running-physical-machine-to-a-kvm-virtual-machine/
Yikes!
Yes, that's pretty crazy, but that's doing the conversion live without
downtime and would have been somewhat easier with kpartx. But it also
doesn't apply to Windows.
I assume that you can shut the system down because otherwise I don't
know how you would do it. The easiest way is just to make a raw disk
image from the source hard drive and boot that. You can save a lot of
space using a qcow image by using ntfsclone to copy the data since
that only copies the used sectors. Windows will probably be somewhat
unhappy about the hardware changing underneath, but should be able to
get over that.
A forest must be missing here, hiding beyond all these trees. I haven't
done this myself but I'd be surprised if it's not possible to set up a
qemu VM that's pointing at an actual disk image, /dev/sdX, instead of an
image file.
The real problem I see here is that the existing Windows install is
likely to be an OEM install license that's tied to the hardware, and
will automatically deactivate itself when it wakes up in a new machine.
You'll have to either deal with using deactivated Windows or pay for a
retail license.
It is Windows 7, so no hardware keying.
I have had issue before with the boot flag
set on several disk such that booting to
which drive was a coin toss. You are
suppose to get around that in BIOS, but ...
(plug 'n play)
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