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https://www.tenforums.com/virtualization/179771-using-physical-disk-kvm-qemu-windows-vm.html?__cf_chl_tk=z_c4bUjts37uHd66EhURNiy75Wla6ioAk1ettZofip4-1670079604-0-gaNycGzNCH0 this got me the farthest but i am stuck at qemu's bios displaying: Booting from Hard Disk...

i have tried setting uefi in virt-manager setting but windows bluescreens with: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DISK(or something like that i dont remember what it actually was)

how to boot windows? or is there another way to run a windows vm and access all of its files in linux host?

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    From Linux: smb://192.168.x.y/folder . That is SMB with the IP address of the Windows Guest. I do this routinely.
    – anon
    Commented Dec 3, 2022 at 16:51
  • @John yes, but i want to access them at any time and not only when windows is running. dual booting is also not an option
    – ипос втарой
    Commented Dec 3, 2022 at 17:03
  • In any traditional VM app, a disk has to be migrated to boot as a virtual device. So I am not sure if what you are trying to do is entirely practical
    – anon
    Commented Dec 3, 2022 at 17:17
  • One option for you is to organize your document store and then copy it to a USB drive and keep it in sync. That will be available any time.
    – anon
    Commented Dec 3, 2022 at 17:25
  • i need to access all of windows's files, not just share some folder with it.
    – ипос втарой
    Commented Dec 3, 2022 at 17:30

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You should probably use a standard image file and mount it onto your host (which I assume is Linux) FS.

Try this method to mount a qcow2 image - https://gist.github.com/shamil/62935d9b456a6f9877b5

Please mind that you should not do that while the VM is running. If you need access to the VM files while the VM is running, the only safe way of doing that is by sharing the boot drive from within Windows and mounting it using Samba of cifs driver.

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