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How to boot a physical Windows partition with qemu?

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Mar 15, 202657763 views
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I have gentoo and windows 7 installed alongside on my only hard drive. I want to start my windows install from within gentoo through qemu. Boot menu works fine but windows bluescreens on me soon after I select it. How would I make it work? (I assume windows is missing drivers required for the qemu-…

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Booting an native, physical Windows 7 partition can be done by this: Prepare requisites (Windows 7 installation media, Virtio drivers). Make your hard drive accessible read-only for your current user. Boot it using QEMU in snapshot mode. This does n…

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