Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox

Re:Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox by Jaruzel on Friday November 09, 2018 @05:57AM (#18413634)

This seems complicated. You can download a copy of of Windows 10 in ISO format via this link:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...

(You need to be using a non-Windows PC otherwise that link will redirect to the Windows Media Creation Tool[1])

Then just install it into a new VM in VirtualBox. It won't activate, and it will nag you about this, but it will still stay fully usable, you just wont be able to change small things like the colour scheme. Which is perfectly fine if it's a crash-and-burn VM for testing.

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[1] Or just change your browser user-agent to report linux.

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Re:Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox by jwilk on Friday November 09, 2018 @11:45AM (#18415746)

Even better, MS offers free VMs for testing their browsers:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...

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Re:Booting a physical Windows 10 disk on Linux using VirtualBox by vetinari on Friday November 09, 2018 @07:46AM (#18413974)

When a vm is running off a physical partition or lvm lv, it is much faster than vm running off a file. All the overhead of the host filesystem goes away.

If you do this with a SSD, make sure the guest OS can do the trimming.

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