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Registered: 2020-06-12

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help with moving from windows dual boot to windows VM (virt-manager)

So I've managed to get arch and windows 10 in a dual boot setup with a shared EFI system partition (using grub boot loader) but I want to move to using a VM with the existing windows partition and a common data partition (currently mounted in arch at boot). I'll provide system specs at the bottom of the post but how would I go about making a virtual machine in virt-manager (in the gui as much as possible) with the existing partition, I've tried adding both the windows partition and efi partition to the VM but it doesnt seem to work that way (and I am using ovmf for uefi support). I'm just looking to get the VM booting into windows at the least but at a later date will be doing GPU passthrough. Can anyone give me any advice or point me to a reliable guide for my particular case. Let me know if you need any more information. Thanks

Neofetch results (without arch logo)

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: MS-7A38 8.0
Kernel: 5.7.6-arch1-1
Uptime: 58 mins
Packages: 974 (pacman)
Shell: bash 5.0.17
Resolution: 1920x1080, 1920x1080, 1920x1080
DE: Plasma
WM: KWin
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze Dark [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: breeze-dark [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G (4) @ 3.500GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series
Memory: 2658MiB / 15766MiB

lsblk results (main drive is nvme0n1, the esp is on 'nvme0n1p1' with windows (C:/) on 'nvme0n1p3' and the data partition on 'nvme0n1p6')

NAME             MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0                 7:0       0   29.8M  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/8140
loop1                 7:1       0   49.9M  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/barrier/83
loop2                 7:2       0      55M  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/1754
sda                    8:0       0 931.5G  0 disk
├─sda1              8:1       0    100M  0 part
├─sda2              8:2       0 930.2G  0 part
└─sda3              8:3       0    822M  0 part
sdb                   8:16      0 298.1G  0 disk
nvme0n1        259:0       0 953.9G  0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1      0    100M  0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2      0      16M  0 part
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3      0   99.5G  0 part
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4      0    505M  0 part
├─nvme0n1p5 259:5      0    100G  0 part /
└─nvme0n1p6 259:6      0 753.8G  0 part /media/Data