On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Ben <benoitne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I have read a good documentation > (http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-12/use-a-real-windows-7-partition-in-virtualbox-kvm-vmware-player-u.html) > explaining how to use a physical disk/partition and clone it to KVM image. > I am wondering if someone has some how-to with an UEFI partition? > > My objective is to clone a partition of Windows 7 from a physical disk. > (not the entire disk as it is a 256GB disk and my disk on my host is as > well a 256GB so I would not get a byte of free space doing that! only > need to clone the root partition of Windows which is around 80GB). > > When I plug the disk into my host, I tried a > > |dd if=/dev/sda2 of=image.raw bs=512| > > (where /dev/sda2 is my 80GB Windows Partition). > > If I tried to do a > > |qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -vnc :0 -k fr image.raw| > > But my KVM is told me > > |Booting from Hard Disk...| > > and nothing more! > Don't you have to copy the first few sectors of the hard drive? > I have installed OVMF and tried with -L option but I don't succeed. > I already know that it is not ideal (because of drivers and lot of other > reasons) to do that but the Windows installation is made by my company > and I would like to not loose it.. > > Many thanks for your help! > > belette > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
