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- GRUB4DOS BOOT VMDK HOW TO
- GRUB4DOS BOOT VMDK INSTALL
- GRUB4DOS BOOT VMDK WINDOWS 10
- GRUB4DOS BOOT VMDK WINDOWS
In Windows 10/8/7 Step 1: Find the Bootable USB drive letter
GRUB4DOS BOOT VMDK INSTALL
Note: Before following any of the below-given methods to install Virtual Machine on VirtualBox using a bootable USB drive, please ensure the VirtualBox is already on your system. This is a known issue by VirtualBox.Step 3: Open the VirtualBox Virtual machine boot from USB on a Windows/macOS/Linux Host The changes made here a NOT permanent and will be lost the next time you boot (hey, at least you don’t have to type all those command on a us-layout-keyboard).
GRUB4DOS BOOT VMDK WINDOWS 10
In Boot -> Change Boot Order, select the EFI-Entry together with your newly created entry, highlight your entry and press „+“ until it is on the very top.Īs the last step, „Reset system“ and it will boot Windows 10 directly. Add something at „Input the description“, press „F10“ and acknowledge with „Y“ then commit your changes. Navigate to EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi and press ENTER. Boot the VM and immediatly (!) hit the F12-Button to enter the settings.Īdd Boot Option and select the entry beginning with „SYSTEM“, this will let you traverse the directory path. To circumvent the grub shell, you’ll have to enter the UEFI of VirtualBox. Don’t forget to install the VirtualBox Guest Addins for more comfort. I can still boot native into Windows 10 without any further trouble. insmod chainĬhainloader /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efiĪnd here’s the result with an activated Windows 10 within Virtual Box. Remember that you only have the US-keyboard-layout. To test your windows installation and activation, simply type these commands (you might have to change the „(hd0,gpt1)“-part – in fact, as the „root“ variable was already pointing to the correct device, I didn’t need to change it at all) and you can boot into windows. If you boot now, you’ll most certainly only see a shell from „GRUB 2.02“ or something similar, as grub can’t find the Windows bootloader, this information is missing inside the UEFI from VirtualBox (and grub can’t find its root partition). Modify your VM to change the system-uuid to the value you have just received (correct the XXX accordingly): VBoxManage modifyvm Win10native -hardwareuuid XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX The following command will print you the ID: sudo dmidecode -s system-uuid To circumvent this, we have to read your system-uuid and write it to the virtual machine. If you would boot now your new virtual machine with the win10native.vmdk attached, Windows 10 can be booted, but as it detects different hardware, it will complain that it is not activated.
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(Change „user“ accordingly) sudo usermod -aG disk,vboxusers userĮnable „EFI“-Support in your System Settings of your VirtualBox. Beware, this literally means that this user is essentially given root rights as he can access all data on any disc. Your current user must have disk access to continue. Now change the ownership of these two files to the user you want to use VirtualBox with (change „user“ and „group“ accordingly): sudo chown -R user:group win10native* I have named the raw file here „win10native.vmdk“, it will create a secondary file with „-pt.vdmk“ at the end, we won’t be using it here, but please leave it where it is.
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If the mentioned partitions are for example /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3, issue this command (compensate for different device names, if necessary): sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename win10native.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 1,2,3 -relative Using these partition information, you can now create a „raw vmdk“ file which can be used by VirtualBox. Using gparted, you’ll quickly find the partitons which are labeled like this: EFI system partition (fat32) VirtualBox does support access to the raw disk, but there are some ceavats that need to be considered.įirst, you’ll have to figure out which partition are EFI and belong the Windows 10 as well.
GRUB4DOS BOOT VMDK HOW TO
So I installed VirtualBox and instead of creating a new virtual Windows 10 which would require a different license, I figured out how to use the raw partition with the activated windows 10 within VirtualBox. I could change between system after a reboot, but I was unsatisfied that I had to reboot from Linux to Windows only for a short usage of the latter. After resizing the Windows partition, I was able to install ubuntu as a secondary operation system. I have a dual-boot setup on my computer, the Windows 10 was already installed and is locked to the hardware („digital license“).