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-mac...
>>
>> 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?