Having fun with KVM

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On 2014-09-26 07:59, Michael Butash wrote:
> 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.


Are you saying the license will not allow you to run the win that came 
with your laptop in a VM?

I bought a Dell laptop about 2 months ago and it came with Win7.  I'd 
like to put win7 in a VM since the laptop is now running Mint 17 KDE.  I 
need windows for IE for testing and one application that runs on windows 
only.


>> 
>> 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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