David Mair wrote:
I have currently virtualized two partitions (/dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3)
that are exposed as QEMU Harddisks to the Windows XP Guest (Drive C and
D there).
Are there possibilities to convert or adapt those to native partitions
or native disks so that I could theoretically boot the Windows that is
placed in the virtual disk natively?
Anything that works on real hardware is likely to work if run in a
guest. At the very least, one of several similar and equivalent methods
would be, create another virtual disk a bit bigger than the Windows
partition you want to make native and attach it to a VM with the Windows
partition you want to make native and boot a linux rescue disk. Put a
linux file system on the new disk and mount it (say at /mnt/workspace)
then, assuming the Windows partition you want to make native is hda1:
# dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/mnt/workspace/windowsCdrive.img bs=1M
# dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/mnt/workspace/windowsDdrive.img bs=1M
# scp /mnt/workspace/windows*img user@vmhost:~/
I'm assuming you get how that would give you a block copy of the guest
partitions as files on the host, which you could then lay down on a real
disk via dd and a USB device for example.
Yeah, I thought about a similar approach already but it looked too complex
to me :-) I assume that my hardware resources might be too limited for such
an operation, but I will give it a try. For saving space I could try to do
a .gz or .tgz out of it right (using "dd | tar...")?
Are there other possibilities from the host side to handle that? I heard
about the qemu-img tool but it doesn't seem to match my usecase.
Or have I just missed some parameters?
Thanks.
Best regards,
Erik
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