[ale] Is there a way of copying existing Windows partition to VM?

[James Sumners]

I think the best you could do would be to access the physical disk
from the VM[1] and clone it to another virtual disk.

[1] -- http://www.sysprobs.com/access-physical-disk-virtualbox-desktop-virtualization-software

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:29, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
> So, I get one of those off-lease desktops.
>
> I plan to shrink the Windows 7 partition down to 80GB, and install Centos
> 6.X on the rest.
>
> Is there a reasonably simple way of getting a VirtualBox or KVM Virtual
> Machine with a copy of this Windows 7 install in it which doesn't involve
> reinstalling Windows 7?   Yes, I hate Windows 7 as much as the rest, but
> occasionally have to use it, and would rather use it in a VM under Centos.
>
> I'm thinking that there isn't an install media for Windows provided,
> although it looks like I can burn a recovery media.    Will that HP recovery
> media install within a VM, or will it detect that it's not seeing "real"
> hardware and barf?
>
> Neal
>
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