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Re: Multi/Dual/Virtual Operating Systems - Smart way of doing things in Windows

Date	2025-03-24 20:32 +0100
Subject	Re: Multi/Dual/Virtual Operating Systems - Smart way of doing things in Windows
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 3/24/25 18:27, Paul wrote:
> On Mon, 3/24/2025 8:12 AM, Newyana2 wrote:
>> On 3/24/2025 6:24 AM, wasbit wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you. Very interesting.
>>> I can't see any benefit for me to change from having my extra operating systems on a partitioned NVMe M.2 drive & using EasyBCD as the boot manager.
>>>   - https://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/
>>>
>>
>>   It looks like he's talking about a VM, not multibooting.
>> You watched the video? I draw the line at people expecting
>> me to watch a video without explaining what they're talking
>> about.
>>
>>   If I had to guess, I'd guess that Mr. Dual Boot Windows
>> probably lost his job as an aluminum siding salesman and this
>> is his new gimmick.
>>
> 
> (Tough audience) :-)
> 
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/boot-to-vhd--native-boot--add-a-virtual-hard-disk-to-the-boot-menu?view=windows-11
> 
> In the example, you can see they "attach" a container, assign a letter
> to the partition, then
> 
>    bcdboot v:\windows /s S: /f UEFI     # Add a boot entry to the boot menu
> 
> I gather that is sort of the idea.
> 
> When I tried that, long ago, with a .vhd , it promptly went into a boot loop.
> But don't let that observation deter you.
> 
>    Paul
I tried to copy a few existing virtual machines in there but they both
failed with winload.efi errors, I'll experiment a bit more.

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    Re: Multi/Dual/Virtual Operating Systems - Smart way of doing things in Windows Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-24 08:12 -0400
      Re: Multi/Dual/Virtual Operating Systems - Smart way of doing things in Windows Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-24 13:27 -0400
        Re: Multi/Dual/Virtual Operating Systems - Smart way of doing things in Windows dillinger <dillinger@invalid.not> - 2025-03-24 20:32 +0100
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