Best way to make a new VHD from a Windows 10 ISO

[Midas]

I found this on my notes from last year's Windows 10 install -- maybe it will help someone.

Installing Windows 10 to VHDX on 'bare metal', what worked

Basically following the recipe below with the following caveats:

- "Native boot for Windows 10 requires the .vhdx format, not the .vhd format."
  This is accomplished by specifying the required file extension in the create commands.

- Windows 10 requires UEFI enabled disks to be formatted to GPT -- NOT MBR! -- and the ideal partition scheme is way more complex...

Cf. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...-boot-menu


Previously, I had been following this recipe to setup Windows 7 to VHD from 'bare metal':

http://www.johnpapa.net/bootoffmetal/

As noted the partition scheme is way more convoluted -- and I suspect it could be even more so, with the ideal setup having some kind of boot store set outside the virtual disk that nontheless mirrors the one inside it (and vice-versa...).

$ qemu-img convert -f raw image.raw -O vpc image.vhd

Thanks for the tip, I'm sure it will be handy in the future.