Lots of ways to do this. From mounting the physical drive/partition in your VM (kinda weird feeling but works well) to using various disk imaging tools. really i would do the research on your desired VM platform and make choices based on that. On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 3:06 PM David Schwartz wrote: > I have an odd question … suppose I wanted to take a fairly vanilla Windows > computer with Win 7 … 10 on it, like your typical Dell or Lenovo or Asus > laptop or desktop; suck that OS install with all the apps into a VirtualBox > VM; copy that VM off to a backup drive; fully reformat the HDD and install > some friendly version of Linux; and finally load up VirtualBox and then the > VM and make the VM work so it looked and acted virtually identical to how > it did before. > > So, I’m not asking HOW to do this … I wouldn’t have much trouble doing it > myself. > > What I’m wondering is if there are any resources around that would explain > how an average person could do it without much trouble? Videos, books, > eBooks, tutorials, whatever. > > Also, for anybody who’s been through this process, how long did it take? > Or how long would you expect it to take based on similar experiences? > > -David Schwartz > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen