<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 June 2013 16:13, Byte Soup <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bytesoup@gmail.com" target="_blank">bytesoup@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>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</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. Grab a raw image (mount win8 HDD in a caddy):</div><div><br></div><div>dd if=/dev/sdb of=/path/to/image</div><div><br></div><div>2. Convert the image from Raw</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp22252528" target="_blank">http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp22252528</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone done this successfully on a UEFI image?</div>
<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>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.</div>
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