From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel@gmail.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partition Disk cloning using dd to KVM with UEFI -> BSOD! or nothing
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 19:02:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F9EBB1.1040603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHEKYV6f5qxacWCbiKfu-tfLwiB7LA-FPcYxkr+evVwoo_AAZg@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/03/2015 18:29, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>> > My objective is to clone a partition of Windows 7 from a physical disk.
>> > (not the entire disk as it is a 256GB disk and my disk on my host is as
>> > well a 256GB so I would not get a byte of free space doing that! only
>> > need to clone the root partition of Windows which is around 80GB).
>> >
>> > When I plug the disk into my host, I tried a
>> >
>> > |dd if=/dev/sda2 of=image.raw bs=512|
>> >
>> > (where /dev/sda2 is my 80GB Windows Partition).
>> >
>> > If I tried to do a
>> >
>> > |qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -vnc :0 -k fr image.raw|
>> >
>> > But my KVM is told me
>> >
>> > |Booting from Hard Disk...|
>> >
>> > and nothing more!
>> >
> Don't you have to copy the first few sectors of the hard drive?
>
Yes, and for UEFI you also need to copy the EFI system partition.
Paolo
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2015-03-06 17:13 Partition Disk cloning using dd to KVM with UEFI -> BSOD! or nothing Ben
2015-03-06 17:29 ` Mauricio Tavares
2015-03-06 18:02 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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