It wants *secure* efi booting likely, not sure windoze8 will boot
without it in that capacity. I think not, but I've only ran it long
enough to update the bios and wipe my laptop. Wouldn't surprise me if
they key the "backup" to your laptop's efi data the trust is built on.
I'd thought about doing this, as my laptop came with win8 pro, having to
pay the dell micro$oft tax, figured it'd be worth restoring to a vm as
at least a more modern visio hypervisor than xp. Then I looked up their
licensing, and found it wouldn't really allow me to port it over as an
oem version, which just reignited the vitriol toward them and their
useless nature I still end up paying for. Thanks Dell.
You're likely technically in the same boat, not sure they'd support you
either. If you really need windoze, you get to pay again - yay!
-mb
On 09/25/2014 06:55 PM, Richard Wilson wrote:
All,
I recently got a new system that came with Win8.1 installed, which I
saved following Microsoft's instructions to a 16GB recovery USB key
and then I overwrote the system with Fedora 20.
Just for grins, I've been trying to create a KVM from the USB key but
the Virtual Machine Manager doesn't like what it finds and is
complaining that it's not bootable. I do not want to risk booting off
the key natively, but was wondering if anyone can point me in the
right direction.
The USB key shows up as /dev/sdc according to dmesg:
[root@ajazus03 ~]# mount -o ro /dev/sdc1 /Win8
[root@ajazus03 ~]# ls /Win8
boot bootmgr.efi reagent.xml System Volume Information
bootmgr efi sources
I have tried telling the virtual machine manager to boot from /dev/sdc
and /dev/sdc1; I think it's looking for an ISO image. If anyone has
some ideas as to how to make this work, I'd appreciate it.
FWIW, I absolutely HATE Windows 8, but if I have a Windows VM I can
hit a few of the sites I need that don't play well with Linux/Firefox,
and since I have the license keys for this copy of Win 8, I thought
I'd try it (I'd really prefer Win 7, but I'm not going to pay MS for a
license for it!)
Thanks in advance,
Richard Wilson
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