[ubuntu-uk] Cloning and moving Win8 OS into a VM

[Simon Greenwood]

On 13 June 2013 16:13, Byte Soup <bytesoup at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently cloned a winXP image into a VM and then can run up the VM from
> a Linux host. The Linux host is running on fairly new hardware which is
> UEFI compatible but the Linux OS as far as I know is using legacy BIOS and
> grub.
>
> Would I have problems with running the Win8 image considering its coming
> from a machine thats running UEFI boot machine? To give you all the idea of
> the process its quite simple, but just take a long time
>
> 1. Grab a raw image (mount win8 HDD in a caddy):
>
> dd if=/dev/sdb of=/path/to/image
>
> 2. Convert the image from Raw
>
> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp22252528
>
> Has anyone done this successfully on a UEFI image?
>
>
This isn't really an Ubuntu question, but I don't believe UEFI is supported
in Virtualbox as yet so it's unlikely that a Windows 8 image will boot. It
looks like the evaluation version of Windows 8 Enterprise will and there's
the cloud edition of 2012 server.

s/
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