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Fedora: Start a Virtual Machine using a physical hard disk

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Recently, we wanted to start a Virtual Machine running a Windows installation from a physical hard disk.

We could not find a way for GNOME Boxes to achieve this, so we installed qemu to do so.

We installed qemu using:


sudo dnf install qemu -y;

Configuring our command to start the Virtual Machine from the physical hard drive:

In the end our command was as follows:


sudo qemu-kvm -snapshot -m 4096 -boot c -hda /dev/sda;

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