Am 23.10.2016 um 23:10 schrieb Marek Marczykowski-Górecki: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 12:29:32PM -0700, Dima Puntus wrote: > > Is it possible at all? I'm trying to virtualize my windows machine > and move > > entirely to Qubes. Some of the applications can't be reinstalled so > fresh > > install isn't an option. > > Should be possible, but probably you'll need to install some drivers (as > the emulated hardware is most likely different than your real one).
And it depends on the installed software; some "enterprise-typical software" for remote administration will make things hard to impossible (I have a few machines) that really work hard on not being compatible with Qubes, even as pure HVM without any XEN drivers). > You'll need a lot of disk space for this... You can make it smaller by > first filling all free space of the (windows) disk with zeros (create > big file with zeros, then remove it). And then add "conv=sparse" to dd > command. It will not copy unused space. If wasting money is not a problem you can use a physical-to-virtual tool to convert it to a VMware image which will do all those things on the way and convert the VMware disk to a Xen image; the better ones will also disable drivers that won't work in virtual environments. Achim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/fa1af92a-9c39-e44c-af94-5727153d6636%40noses.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
