[GTALUG] Seeking recommendation: KVM vs Virtualbox

[William Park]

I would think any VM will boot off an harddisk image file.  I mean, when 
you install OS on to a VM, that's what you're doing.  Taking an image of 
the harddisk would be sensible, in any case.

On 11/3/21 9:49 PM, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
> I have an old Win XP (32 bit) instance loaded with dozens of games, that
> I would like to take traveling. I would like to run it in a VM.
> The host will be a laptop running 64 bit debian i3 core.
> 
> I would really like to just turn the XP NTFS partition into an image
> file which I can run on the VM.  This would save me hundreds of hours of
> reinstalling stuff.
> The best bet for this seems to be using virtualbox, and there are
> (pretty tricky) howtos for it. I do not think you can do this at all
> with KVM.
> 
> Has anyone ever managed something like this before? Let me learn from
> your pain!
> 
> PS: Another alternative is to install the higher performing KVM to 
> install a fresh XP instance and use a commercial PC program mover to 
> copy the games from the PC XP to the instance, via the network. There
> are tools such as PcMover that claim to do this. Has anyone ever done
> this before?
> 
> Thanks
>