Windows Install to Virtual Machine

How to turn an existing, physical Windows installation into a VirtualBox virtual machine.

This video builds on my 2025 video “Running Windows in Linux: A VirtualBox Guide” --    • Running Windows in Linux: A VirtualBox Guide  

And you may also find useful my video “Linux Terminal Introduction” --    • Linux Terminal Introduction  

The Oracle VirtualBox website is at: https://www.virtualbox.org

And the syntax for converting a VHDX (or VHD) file to VDI is:

VBoxManage clonehd [PATH/SOURCE-FILE] [PATH/TARGET-FILE] --format VDI

Finally, you can find all of my Linux guides and distro reviews here: https://explainingcomputers.com/linux...

More videos on computing and related topics can be found at:
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And more videos on film and other making, plus retro tech, can be found on my Christopher Barnatt channel:    / @christopherbarnatt  

Chapters:
00:00 Titles & Intro
00:44 VirtualBox
02:35 Disk2vhd
06:44 VDI Conversion
13:05 Virtual Machine Creation
16:28 Guest Additions
18:35 Activation & Configuration
22:20 Wrap

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