I wonder if you couldn’t DD the drive to an ISO image and then mount that in QEMU. You could do the VPN configuration on the Linux host and then route both the VM and local traffic over the VPN so you can use native Linux tools and still have all your Windows software. Windows is going to go bugfuck on restart with a whole different set of hardware… I dunno how easily it can recover from that.
There is no way for me to use Linux on my work pc. We use MSTSC and MSRA for supporting, most of my work takes place on a windows server aswell and the other part of my work is just browser based.
I don’t gain anything by forcing linux on that machine besides headache and probably some calls that go like “What the fuck dude?! Why are you using Linux on your machine?”
Good for you, i work in big corpo, individual preferences are shat on.
I wonder if you couldn’t DD the drive to an ISO image and then mount that in QEMU. You could do the VPN configuration on the Linux host and then route both the VM and local traffic over the VPN so you can use native Linux tools and still have all your Windows software. Windows is going to go bugfuck on restart with a whole different set of hardware… I dunno how easily it can recover from that.
There is no way for me to use Linux on my work pc. We use MSTSC and MSRA for supporting, most of my work takes place on a windows server aswell and the other part of my work is just browser based.
I don’t gain anything by forcing linux on that machine besides headache and probably some calls that go like “What the fuck dude?! Why are you using Linux on your machine?”