To do a physical to virtual
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd
You can choose either to create in VHDX or VHD
To convert VHDX to VHD
If you create the disk in VHDX format and want to run it in Virtual Box you will need to convert it to VHD
Install Hyper-V on Windows and run the Convert-VHD powershell command:
Convert-VHD -Path .\HP-8200-ELITE-HDD-IMAGE.VHDX -DestinationPath .\HP-8200-ELITE-HDD-IMAGE.VHD
To convert VHD/VHDX to VMDK
On Linux or WSL2 install qemu-utils
sudo apt-get install qemu-utils
# if using WSL copy the VHD/VHDX to your linux home e.g. /home/user... to improve performance
qemu-img info HP-8200-ELITE-HDD-IMAGE.VHDX
qemu-img convert HP-8200-ELITE-HDD-IMAGE.VHDX -O vmdk HP-8200-ELITE-HDD-IMAGE.vmdk -p
Check the qemu docs as you can convert between alot of different formats
Virtual Box
To run on Virtual Box (needed if you want to do serial pass through as Hyper-V doesn’t directly support it)
To run Windows 10 / 11 Pro host and AutoAdminLogon with encrypted passwords
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon
Add C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox to the system PATH if you want to use VBoxManage from the command line
VBoxManage.exe list vms
Run a VM from shortcut using either VM Name (The output of VBoxManage.exe list vms) or UUID
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" startvm 99b10ceb-ffc9-4fb6-9d80-a24196ff1636
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