![]() ![]() 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. 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. I left the boxes checked by default for the Use Vhdx and Use Volume Shadow Copy options. 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. 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. As described in another post, I had a Windows 10 (version 1607) installation on an Acer laptop. ![]()
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