bootable physical drive in VM
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rpyne
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bootable physical drive in VM
I have a running linux system on a physical drive that I want to make into a VM. Is it possible to just boot the physical drive inside a VM?
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mpack
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- Primary OS: MS Windows 10
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- Guest OSses: Mostly XP
Re: bootable physical drive in VM
It's possible, but not recommended. Better would be to use CloneZilla to make an image of the drive, then use CloneVDI to convert it to VDI format (use "Compact") option to get the image down to a reasonable size.