how to create a vm with a physical hard disk?

[terse furnace]

I would like to access my windows install from my linux PC. How can I do this with a vm?

[prime venture]

Use the device file of the physical drive as the disc image for the VM

[terse furnace]

so /dev/sdx

[prime venture]

Yes

[terse furnace]

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[prime venture]

for example

qemu-system-x86-64 -drive file=/dev/nvme0n1p3,format=raw

[terse furnace]

where would I put that

[terse furnace]

I tried clicking that but it owuldnt let me select my disc file

[prime venture]

In the file dialogue box, select the device file

[prime venture]

Can you take a screenshot of the interface?

[terse furnace]

Its not showing the hard disk file

[terse furnace]

I made it to /dev/ but I get this

[prime venture]

You probably don't have permission

[terse furnace]

how do I get permission

[terse furnace]

yeah it says access denied

how do I give it access

[prime venture]

Also, you will most likely need to pass the entire disc.

A partition is not a disc

[terse furnace]

m

[prime venture]

sudo chgrp $USER /dev/sda

[terse furnace]

ok it says ver not supported is that because of this

[prime venture]

Can you post the full output

[prime venture]

Ha, that's the bogus thing about virtualbox

[terse furnace]

can I do this in Qemu

[prime venture]

https://superuser.com/a/756731/1774322

I couldn't resist saying that virtualbox has no advantages over libvirt/qemu on Linux.

[terse furnace]

I know but this was the only one where I read that they had this feature

[prime venture]

Other than been more insipid

this feature
What feature?

[terse furnace]

the one to boot off a physical drive

It wants me to install something

[prime venture]

I have understood not what you are trying to express in this context.

[prime venture]

Please record as a video as you go through the process.

[terse furnace]

My pc stopped responding to keyboard and mouse inputs

i'll do that once it reboots

is there an easy way to backup an entire drive

short of copying all the files

[prime venture]

A back tool such as Borg or Restic would be preferable.

[terse furnace]

Ok, im trying to install that now