Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloning and moving Win8 OS into a VM

2013-06-13 Thread Liam Proven
On 13 June 2013 17:30, Stuart Ward wrote: > You would still need virtual box to support UEFI in order to boot the win8 > VM, Create VM, then look under Settings | System | Motherboard | Extended Features There, you will find the following setting: [ ] Enable EFI (special OSes only) This is in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloning and moving Win8 OS into a VM

2013-06-13 Thread Stuart Ward
On 13 June 2013 16:59, Byte Soup wrote: > run the orignal Win8 in a VM You would still need virtual box to support UEFI in order to boot the win8 VM, Stuart -- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloning and moving Win8 OS into a VM

2013-06-13 Thread Byte Soup
On 13 June 2013 16:27, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > > This isn't really an Ubuntu question, > What I should have said was: The host machine would be converted from Win8 to Ubuntu and Ubuntu does support UEFI after 12.04 right? Im hoping to basically image the machine and then flatten / rebuilt w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloning and moving Win8 OS into a VM

2013-06-13 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 13 June 2013 16:40, Liam Proven wrote: > On 13 June 2013 16:27, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > I don't believe UEFI is supported in Virtualbox as yet > > It's there as an option - I think it's needed for running Mac OS X. > Don't know if it will work with W8, though. I'm a couple of releases be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloning and moving Win8 OS into a VM

2013-06-13 Thread Liam Proven
On 13 June 2013 16:27, Simon Greenwood wrote: > I don't believe UEFI is supported in Virtualbox as yet It's there as an option - I think it's needed for running Mac OS X. Don't know if it will work with W8, though. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloning and moving Win8 OS into a VM

2013-06-13 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 13 June 2013 16:13, Byte Soup wrote: > I recently cloned a winXP image into a VM and then can run up the VM from > a Linux host. The Linux host is running on fairly new hardware which is > UEFI compatible but the Linux OS as far as I know is using legacy BIOS and > grub. > > Would I have probl

[ubuntu-uk] Cloning and moving Win8 OS into a VM

2013-06-13 Thread Byte Soup
I recently cloned a winXP image into a VM and then can run up the VM from a Linux host. The Linux host is running on fairly new hardware which is UEFI compatible but the Linux OS as far as I know is using legacy BIOS and grub. Would I have problems with running the Win8 image considering its comin