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Soo.. Apologies if this is in the wrong place. Still new and unfamiliar to Lemmy. ๐Ÿ˜Š I could not find a specific vm community, so chat is hopefully ok? Posting this with Jerboa on iusearchlinux.fyi (hopefully?)

I have an issue with booting a windows vm from a physical drive and I hope this community might be able to help.

I run arch on my desktop where I have 2 nvme drives. One with Linux and the other with win10. This us the first time I am using systemd-boot for dual boot setup. I normally use grub but this I went with systemd. Possibly a mistake...

I have used these drives and the win10 install with several Linux installs over the years on this motherboard. Both as a dual boot, but also for vfio virtual machine. This works like a charm. But not this time... Dual boot works great, but the vm boot is not working atm.

I normally pass the entire windows drive to qemu, pass the spare Nvidia card and if we go. Usually controlled with looking-glass. It's sweet and work like a charm.

But for some reason I cannot boot the windows drive like this anymore. I suspect systemd-boot does something but I am not familiar enough to tell for sure.

Anyone with a similar setup with a success story to share? Is this possible with systemd? Or is my best bet to go back to grub?

Cheers all!

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