setting bios boot partition arch virtualbox

Even better, use backup software to clone the physical drive to another physical drive and use the clone as the repair test. I strongly recommend backing up the physical drive before doing this, and know how to restore. But you won't be able to go back to booting physically. If you want to use your existing Windows 10 on the physical drive only in the Virtualbox guest for the future and never go back to booting it on the physical hardware, you could try booting a Windows 10 install ISO in Virtualbox and repairing the OS. You will need to do a new Windows 10 in the Virtualbox guest. Reports are that Windows 10 will not cooperate. May 2020, 12:53Įarlier Windows (7) could boot in a Virtualbox guest after being installed on the physical computer, though activation was a concern, because in a Virtualbox (or any other hypervisor) the 'hardware' the OS sees is all different, so reactivation is requested, which can only be done a couple times before Microsoft gets cranky. Markus Benter Attachments Storage settings Screenshot VirtualBox Windows 10 Storage.png (65.26 KiB) Viewed 17130 times Windows 10 with 'Boot EFI' set to false Screenshot Windows 10 Boot No EFI.png (19.22 KiB) Viewed 17130 times Windows 10 with 'Boot EFI' set to true Screenshot Windows 10 Boot EFI.png (24.63 KiB) Viewed 17130 times openminded Posts: 13 Joined: 17. I'm not sure but I think 'Enable EFI' should be set to true. I tried it on VirtualBox 6.1.8 and it's not working Default Windows 10 installation on a Lonovo P1.Ĭode: Select all Expand view Collapse view VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/win10.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/nvme0n1p3 I want to boot my physically installed Windows 10 as VirtualBox Guest with Ubuntu 20.04 host.

Setting bios boot partition arch virtualbox