On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 06:51 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > 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.
This is definitely possible. I did it once, using Virtual Machine Manager. > 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. That could happen, In my case it wasn't an OEM license and I didn't have a problem, but YMMV. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
