Struggle to get an Win10 image to work in KVM
Greetings to all you Linux Masterminds out there.
I'm relatively new to Linux (mint 22.3) and try to leave Windows behind me. My main problem is, that I need software that runs only on Windows (Wine doesn't help here. I mainly need to run Autodesk Fusion, DxO PhotoLab, SilverFast scanner software,...)
I had Win10 running on my laptop and made a second install with Win11 which I absolutely don't like. So I installed Linux Mint earlier this year running as main OS.
Always needing to reboot from one system to the other is quite time consuming, if I need to use one of the programs just for a few minutes, so I looked into VMs and found out, that I could turn my old Windows10 installation into an image and run it in KVM.
I used "disk2vhdx", selected the hidden boot partition as well as my old "c:", checkt all 3 boxes for "use vhdx", "prepare to run in VirtualPC", and "shadow volume copy" to get my image.
Back in Linux, I converted this vhdx into a qcow2 file using "qemu-img convert -p -f vhdx -O qcow2 source.vhdx destination.qcow2". Then I move the file to /var/lib/libvirt/images so that KVM can access the file.
I run KVM, add a new VM selecting the file, set CPU+memory as well as switching from boot to UEFI_x86_64 with q35 chipset.
For now, at least I could resolve the "no boot device" on my own, but I'm stuck with the VM booting into grub instead of windows.
What am I doing wrong?
Can anyone please help me getting this VM to run properly.
Thanks, Alex