Having fun with KVM

[Michael Butash]

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 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
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