A problem you could run into doing this is licensing. WIndows uses a variety of methods to detect if a valid product key is being run on multiple machines, which includes some checks on the hardware. Since a virtual machine is never going to have virtual hardware that exactly matches your PC, there's a good chance that, even if you succeed in getting your native install to run under a hypervisor, Windows may well consider it an unlicensed copy.
I recently had a Windows 10 VM that this happened to when I just upgraded Virtual Box, didn't touch the Windows VM at all.
--Greg
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 9:39 PM ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,
Is there a way to tape a native Windows hard
drive and port it to qemu-kvm?
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