Hello,
I have a problem booting Windows 10 from a flat-VMDK file under Ubuntu 20.04.
These are the steps I made so far:
1) copy the content of the whole harddisk containing Windows 10 with 'dd' into a file 'win.img'.
2) convert 'win.img' to flat-VMDK with:
qemu-img convert -f raw -S 0 -o subformat=monolithicFlat -O vmdk ./win.img disk.vmdk
(https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/tools/qemu-img.html#cmdoption-qemu-img-commands-arg-convert)
(Below is the image descriptor file, that was created by qemu-img.)
The created flat-vmdk (disk-flat.vmdk) has exactly the same size and content as the image created with dd.
3) in Wmware Player I choose this descriptor file and under Harddisk --> Advanced --> Virtual Device Node, I select "NVMe 0:0".
4) if I try to boot Windows 10, Vmware Player says: Guest: Status upon boot failure: No Media
(see the complete log in attachment)
Before the disk image was created i checked the physical harddisk with "fdisk", if the Windows partition is marked as bootable.
What could be the problem ?
Thank You in advance,
Daniel
################
# Disk DescriptorFile
version=1
CID=508e18f9
parentCID=ffffffff
createType="monolithicFlat"
# Extent description
RW 500118192 FLAT "disk-flat.vmdk" 0
# The Disk Data Base
#DDB
ddb.virtualHWVersion = "4"
ddb.geometry.cylinders = "496149"
ddb.geometry.heads = "16"
ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"
ddb.adapterType = "ide"
################
