Title says it all, has anyone taken a working bare installation windows
10 machine, and installed linux on it and moved win10 to a virtual box VM?
On 04/10/2021 18.50, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Title says it all, has anyone taken a working bare installation windows
10 machine, and installed linux on it and moved win10 to a virtual box VM?
I think I tried long ago with another version of Windows. Can work.
Sometimes not.
AFAIK, when you install windows it customizes for that machine, so
cloning and migrating to a VM may break it.
I have a foggy memory of doing that migration and then having a boot
hell of not having the correct drivers for the "new" hardware and
installing them with many reboots to recovery mode and back.
Notice that instead of using a virtual disk you can tell the virtual
machine to use the actual disk partitions instead.
On 06/10/2021 09:23, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 04/10/2021 18.50, The Natural Philosopher wrote:I did a bit of digging, and frankly there are changes to the 'hardware'
Title says it all, has anyone taken a working bare installation windows
10 machine, and installed linux on it and moved win10 to a virtual
box VM?
I think I tried long ago with another version of Windows. Can work.
Sometimes not.
AFAIK, when you install windows it customizes for that machine, so
cloning and migrating to a VM may break it.
I have a foggy memory of doing that migration and then having a boot
hell of not having the correct drivers for the "new" hardware and
installing them with many reboots to recovery mode and back.
Notice that instead of using a virtual disk you can tell the virtual
machine to use the actual disk partitions instead.
that make that not work.
I think even given a valid widows serial number you cant reinstall on 'another' machine.?
On 06/10/2021 11.44, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 06/10/2021 09:23, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 04/10/2021 18.50, The Natural Philosopher wrote:I did a bit of digging, and frankly there are changes to the 'hardware'
Title says it all, has anyone taken a working bare installation windows >>>> 10 machine, and installed linux on it and moved win10 to a virtual
box VM?
I think I tried long ago with another version of Windows. Can work.
Sometimes not.
AFAIK, when you install windows it customizes for that machine, so
cloning and migrating to a VM may break it.
I have a foggy memory of doing that migration and then having a boot
hell of not having the correct drivers for the "new" hardware and
installing them with many reboots to recovery mode and back.
Notice that instead of using a virtual disk you can tell the virtual
machine to use the actual disk partitions instead.
that make that not work.
I think even given a valid widows serial number you cant reinstall on
'another' machine.?
I think that needed a phone call to M$.
On 06/10/2021 12:17, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 06/10/2021 11.44, The Natural Philosopher wrote:FTFAGOS
On 06/10/2021 09:23, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 04/10/2021 18.50, The Natural Philosopher wrote:I did a bit of digging, and frankly there are changes to the 'hardware'
Title says it all, has anyone taken a working bare installation
windows
10 machine, and installed linux on it and moved win10 to a virtual
box VM?
I think I tried long ago with another version of Windows. Can work.
Sometimes not.
AFAIK, when you install windows it customizes for that machine, so
cloning and migrating to a VM may break it.
I have a foggy memory of doing that migration and then having a boot
hell of not having the correct drivers for the "new" hardware and
installing them with many reboots to recovery mode and back.
Notice that instead of using a virtual disk you can tell the virtual
machine to use the actual disk partitions instead.
that make that not work.
I think even given a valid widows serial number you cant reinstall on
'another' machine.?
I think that needed a phone call to M$.
(Fuck that for a game of soldiers)
I probably don't need windows 10 *that* much.
I am just moving machines around because one died, and a S/H i5 HP
elite was available at a sane price with a massive SSD disk and win10
but will of course be linux, and I'll move my old WINXP VM onto it.
Was wondering about a win10 VM, but really I don't need it.
Could make it dual boot I suppose, but why would I need win 10?
Might as well keep the license number and wipe it
But if you want Windows in a virtual machine you can with minimal effort find a Windows install iso on the Internet and using
that iso, install which ever version of Windows you want to use to a
virtual machine.
On 06/10/2021 18:50, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
But if you want Windows in a virtual machine you can with minimal >> effort find a Windows install iso on the Internet and using
that iso, install which ever version of Windows you want to use to a
virtual machine.
Doesn't that need a key to activate? been at least 15 years since I
installed windows ...
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 06/10/2021 18:50, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
But if you want Windows in a virtual machine you can with
minimal effort find a Windows install iso on the Internet and using
that iso, install which ever version of Windows you want to use to a
virtual machine.
Doesn't that need a key to activate? been at least 15 years since I
installed windows ...
It's even easier: here you can find ready-baked Windows 10 VM images, no
key needed, directly from M$ itself:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
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