On 2020-03-06 15:24, Stumpy wrote: > On 2020-03-06 09:20, Frédéric Pierret wrote: >> >> On 2020-03-03 09:43, Stumpy wrote: >>> Hi, I have an existing win10 installation which I want to copy and then use >>> as a template in Qubes. I am sure I asked before somewhere about this and >>> the only thing i remember about the response was Disk2vhd. >> >> 1) From where you have win10 installation? It comes from a physical machine >> or VM? > > From a physical machine. > > Yes this question from physical is necessary, especially if enabling proper > drivers in Windows is needed. > > It would be from a physical machine, and its my hope to then install qubes on > this machine, and then run this win10 vm (along with other VMs) on this > machine. >> >> 2) In which format? OVA, VMDK? > > Well i guess it depends, I am fine with whatever that is using vmware to copy > the physical machine to ova or vmdk - my pref i guess would be whichever is > easier.
I don't know how you want to go from your physical windows 10 (unrelated to vCenter) to a Qubes VM. I almost did something like this. The target was not Qubes but KVM(+libvirt) but this is almost the same for Qubes. Here is what I've done: 0) In the windows, enabled the related drivers at boot. First with IDE backend: atapi.sys, intelide.sys, pciide.sys and msahci.sys. I only identified those four for booting the VM and preventing the famous BSOD with 7B error. 1) Used 'dd' for creating a raw image of the physical drive, 2) Created a VM as I told you by using 'dd' from this raw image to an LVM 3) Booted the VM and installed missing drivers Good luck :) >> >> I would go to use qemu-img for converting VMDK (certainly in sparse format >> if it comes from vCenter) into raw image. Then, creating a standalone HVM in >> Qubes with sufficient space then dd from your image to your root lvm >> partition of the newly created VM. > > Thanks for the concise suggestion, i think i got it. > > Will get it a try. Cheers > >> >> >>> So i am thinking its possible to copy an existing installation, and hoping >>> its possible to use that image as a template in Qubes but am really unsure >>> about the details. >>> >>> Is there a write or relevant howto for doing something like this? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >> >> Best, >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/08912aaa-473e-cd11-9601-342f2a445ab5%40qubes-os.org.
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