Id like to take my old windows laptop drive and image it so I can still use it in virtual box. For reference its a win 7 install on the drive.
Can I do this only using dd, and making the image an iso, and it will boot? Seems too easy!
Id like to take my old windows laptop drive and image it so I can still use it in virtual box. For reference its a win 7 install on the drive.
Can I do this only using dd, and making the image an iso, and it will boot? Seems too easy!
Don’t try to make an iso out of it, it won’t work. Depending on your hypervisor you can either pass the drive through to the VM directly or dd it to a raw disk file and attach it that way. You may have to do some conversion to make it work with your hypervisor. KVM and virtual box should work with the raw file, or you can convert to one of their native formats. VMWare will need conversion to a vmdk file to attach it.