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Registered: 2020-02-01

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use qemu/kvm to start a Windows OS from a hard disk

I have two disks:

❯ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0   1.8T  0 disk
├─sda1        8:1    0    16M  0 part
└─sda2        8:2    0   1.8T  0 part /mnt/c
nvme0n1     259:0    0 931.5G  0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   128M  0 part /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0 931.4G  0 part /var/lib/docker/btrfs
                                      /

/dev/sda have a windows OS, /dev/nvme0n1 have a ArchLinux.

I hope I can use qemu/kvm to start the Windows OS on /dev/sda.

I refer wiki and link.

sudo chown $USER /dev/sda
cp /usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd bios.bin
qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -L . --bios bios.bin -m 16G -cpu host -drive file=/dev/sda,format=raw,media=disk

It will give me:

What should I do?

Any help is thanksful.

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