On 10/24/22 22:08, Samuel Sieb wrote:
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.

Would you have a link to a "how to"?

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