move Win10 setup to a VM...

The Natural Philosopher

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Oct 4, 2021, 12:50:57 PM10/4/21

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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?

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Carlos E. R.

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Oct 6, 2021, 4:24:34 AM10/6/21

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On 04/10/2021 18.50, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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> 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.

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The Natural Philosopher

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Oct 6, 2021, 5:44:02 AM10/6/21

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I did a bit of digging, and frankly there are changes to the 'hardware'
that make that not work.

I think even given a valid widows serial number you cant reinstall on
'another' machine.?

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Carlos E. R.

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Oct 6, 2021, 7:17:52 AM10/6/21

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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:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
> I did a bit of digging, and frankly there are changes to the 'hardware'
> 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$.

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The Natural Philosopher

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Oct 6, 2021, 10:46:01 AM10/6/21

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FTFAGOS
(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

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Bobbie Sellers

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Oct 6, 2021, 1:50:15 PM10/6/21

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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.

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all here I am...

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The Natural Philosopher

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Oct 6, 2021, 9:35:48 PM10/6/21

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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 ...

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that they are dead.
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Philip Nienhuis

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Oct 7, 2021, 2:36:03 PM10/7/21

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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/

The Natural Philosopher

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Oct 8, 2021, 4:26:55 AM10/8/21

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time limited though. Although in my case a snapshot reset would not
necessarily be a bad thing.

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