I’ve been running Windows on my gaming desktop and am ready to make the switch to Linux (I run arch at work and cachyOS on my personal laptop). However, I’ve got some software that I want to use that’s Windows-only, and I’d rather not replace them and re-learn from scratch. Does anyone know of any software or methods to take the currently installed Windows OS and move it into a VM image I could run on Linux?
I would just make a partition to install Linux on, keep the windows partition (resize first as needed) and then create a raw disk vmdk image to run windows from the real partition instead of a virtual drive.
Pretty easy and you can continue to dual boot whenever needed.
Windows is known to break dual-boots
Pretty easy? Not in my experience