To avoid permissions problems, I ran VMM via sudo virt-manager. Then, to see if I could open the. That gave me Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) as a KVM graphical user interface (GUI).
#VDI TO FS CONVERTER INSTALL#
vhdx without conversion. LMC didn’t come with KVM installed, so I used the steps described in a previous post to install it. vdi in KVM.īut was there a more direct route? A search led to an indication that Proxmox (a server-oriented, Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that appeared to focus on using KVM), at least, could directly import. So one route forward would be to use VirtualBox to convert this Win10. vdi was the only one that was able to run in KVM without conversion. I had previously found that, among VMs running Windows XP, 7, and 10 in VirtualBox. Taking me partway there, gHacks (Brinkmann, 2017) offered instructions for using the. So I had to switch, now, to other sources of guidance. But I wasn’t interested in running the new VM in Hyper-V. I assumed that would work without many problems: presumably Microsoft made sure that the output of its Disk2VHD program would work as input for its Hyper-V program.
#VDI TO FS CONVERTER WINDOWS 10#
vhdx file would be imported into Hyper-V on a Windows 10 system. The TenForums tutorial and others (e.g., OnlineTechTips) described a process in which the. Apparently Win10’s compression algorithm was not familiar to LMC 18. It was a dual-boot machine, and I found I needed to boot it in Windows, and use a Windows program (I chose WinRAR, my preferred zip program) to unzip the.
#VDI TO FS CONVERTER ZIP FILE#
zip file over to a computer running KVM on Linux Mint Cinnamon (LMC) 18. It didn’t ask for a destination it just took a long time and produced a 36GB. vhdx on the Desktop > Send to > Compressed (zipped) folder. vhdx to another computer where I could try using it in KVM on Linux, on the Windows 10 laptop I right-clicked on the. For purposes of conserving disk space and creating a fast VM, one would hope that KVM would find a way to reduce that. vhdx was so large: I had previously seen a 28GB. I was dismayed but not really surprised that the resulting. vhdx file from the laptop’s original 57GB Windows installation (i.e., a 58% inflation). I wasn’t watching the clock closely, but that took maybe 25 minutes to produce a 90GB. vhd, except when software required the latter.) Then I clicked Create.
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I left the boxes checked by default for the Use Vhdx and Use Volume Shadow Copy options.
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For Me (i.e., the user account that I had created during installation), Disk2VHD translated the destination and filename as C:\Users\Me\Desktop\ACER-Disk2VHD.vhdx. I selected the desktop as the destination, and gave it a filename that I would recognize.
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It offered to create VHDs of every partition it could find. It was a portable, so I didn’t need to install it I just put it on the desktop and ran it from there. The version I got was 2.01, dated January 20, 2014. (Note that commands are presented here in italics, and that I don’t indicate every time I had to click OK or Close or some other “next step” button to move things along.)Īs detailed in a TenForums tutorial, the first step was to download the latest version of Disk2VHD and run it on the laptop. This post describes the steps I took to find out. I wondered whether I could use Microsoft’s Disk2VHD to convert that physical installation to a virtual machine (VM) that would run in KVM.
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As described in another post, I had a Windows 10 (version 1607) installation on an Acer laptop.