Boot VM directly from Windows/Linux/etc. OS drive?

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Is it possible to do this? If so, can someone point me to the relevant docs? I couldn’t find it when searching the docs.

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Something like this?

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Not quite. That requires an ISO, and I mean ripping a drive from a working (or previously working) computer and booting it in a VM

(Imaged first ofc)

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Ah. There exist tools to image a drive and boot it as a vm in Xen. However, I never tried any of them and don’t know if any will work under Qubes.

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So, this is an upstream thing, ie Xen can’t boot an OS from the drive without modification?

I’m hoping for a solution where I can just treat it like a regular computer and tell the BIOS to boot from the USB… Maybe I set my hopes too high.

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