On 06/03/2015 18:29, Mauricio Tavares wrote: >> > 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? > Yes, and for UEFI you also need to copy the EFI system partition. Paolo -- 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
