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.
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