[libvirt-users] convert physical windows 8 machine to virtual machine

arnaud gaboury arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com
Thu May 15 13:03:52 UTC 2014


>
> You can definitely install enough drivers so that both bare-metal and
> virtual will boot.  But what you cannot do is prevent the pci bus from
> changing - the bare-metal boot WILL see different hardware than the
> virtual boot, and windows is picky enough that it WILL require
> re-registration every time the hardware changes that drastically.
> There's no way around it.

Ok then. I was going toward mounting the w8 as loop device inside a
raw image, but I understand it will break the bare-metal boot. So
let's go with two w8 (or one VM only and no physical w8).
Thank you for your vise advices.




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