On 10/25/22 01:09, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 10/25/22 00:27, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
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"?
I don't. Can you move the windows hard drive to the VM system, maybe
using a USB enclosure? Or do you have enough space to copy the entire
drive to an image? What is your goal here?
A customer approached me about a specialty application
(aircraft transponder tracking) that needs Linux. But
wanted to put it on an old computer with windows on
it. He asked if you could dual boot. I said yes,
but it is froth with issues.
So I was thinking of porting his Windows to qemu-kvm
if he really wanted Windows. But better yet, just
put in new hard drive and pack up his old drive in
a static bag for safe keeping. He has several
computers, so he can run his windows stuff of
various other computers.
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