Macrium unlike others can clone QEMU virtual hard drives

Hi folks
running a W11 canary VM from an external usb drive on Linux -- I wanted to clone it to internal disk on a laptop running archlinux.

From WITHIN the VM macrium recognised the virtual hard drives and cloned successfully even though both virtual hard disks were "virtio formatted".

Still a plus for Macrium (and this was the free edition too).





I think some of the other windows backup software options might have a problem doing this type of thing.

cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

... running a W11 canary VM from an external usb drive on Linux

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Excuse my ignorance, but, I gotta ask......, WHY???
Because you can!?!?!?

Edwin said:

Excuse my ignorance, but, I gotta ask......, WHY???
Because you can!?!?!?

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Two reasons

One to copy the VM from an external device to internal "Virtual hard drive" for the Guest VM.when running on a laptop.

Two to create a physical Windows to Go system on an external nvme device Very fast nvme card with nvme adaptter for USBC / Usb 3.

I'm running a W11 VM on a laptop which is running Arch Linux as the Host system :



Now I want to create a physical win to go system so I just simply clone the VM to the external device - don't worry about the "Virtual hardware drivers" - doesn't interfere with the normal operation of W11 at all, then re-install the bootloader (bcdboot.exe etc) and re-boot. I've a file also with W11 drivers from the last physical W11 install I did so I can just go into hardware and update drivers from the device manager -- update drivers --search on this computer etc.

So I can always have a decent copy of latest Windows systems even though you can't update to newer builds on an external device.

sometimes you need to run things directly on physical hardware -- not just a VM.

Hopefully question answered --Q.E.D -- not "Quod Erat Demonstrandum" but "Quite Easily Done".

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Hopefully question answered...

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That stuff is way over my head, but, I'll take your word for it!

Edwin said:

That stuff is way over my head, but, I'll take your word for it!

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Cheers

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Cheers
jimbo