Nicolai Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 Hello everyone. I'm looking into the possibilities of running unraid for some data reasons and some security/fail safe reasons. I would like to hear, if it's possible to take my existing installation of windows 10 and create a VM from that, or in other words "move" my current installation into a VM in unraid and continue running it from there? Best regards Quote Link to comment
Michael_P Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 Yep, you can either move the whole disk, or do an image backup and restore into the VM. Quote Link to comment
Nicolai Posted October 9, 2021 Author Share Posted October 9, 2021 31 minutes ago, Michael_P said: Yep, you can either move the whole disk, or do an image backup and restore into the VM. Thank you for the quick reply! Move the whole disk, what does that entail? Quote Link to comment
Michael_P Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 10 minutes ago, Nicolai said: Move the whole disk, what does that entail? Take whatever disk you're using in your W10 machine and move it into your Unraid server as an unassigned device, then assign that to the VM and it should boot like it never left (assuming it was your boot drive and the boot manager is set up correctly). 1 Quote Link to comment
Nicolai Posted October 9, 2021 Author Share Posted October 9, 2021 6 minutes ago, Michael_P said: Take whatever disk you're using in your W10 machine and move it into your Unraid server as an unassigned device, then assign that to the VM and it should boot like it never left (assuming it was your boot drive and the boot manager is set up correctly). Ah, I see. I wanted to move it as a WM, because it would be easy to create a back up image of that VM, and should the W10 install go wonky, it would be easy to just fire up the back up image and continue from there. 1 Quote Link to comment
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