Having fun with KVM

[Richard Wilson]

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 at ajazus03 ~]# mount -o ro /dev/sdc1 /Win8
[root at 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