Windows Install to Virtual Machine

How to turn an existing, physical Windows installation into a VirtualBox virtual machine. This video builds on my 2025 video “Running Windows in Linux: A VirtualBox Guide” -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN1MWBa3yiw And you may also find useful my video “Linux Terminal Introduction” -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkB-eRCzWIU The Oracle VirtualBox website is at: https://www.virtualbox.org And the syntax for converting a VHDX (or VHD) file to VDI is: VBoxManage clonehd [PATH/SOURCE-FILE] [PATH/TARGET-FILE] --format VDI Finally, you can find all of my Linux guides and distro reviews here: https://explainingcomputers.com/linux_videos.html More videos on computing and related topics can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers And more videos on film and other making, plus retro tech, can be found on my Christopher Barnatt channel: http://www.youtube.com/@ChristopherBarnatt Chapters: 00:00 Titles & Intro 00:44 VirtualBox 02:35 Disk2vhd 06:44 VDI Conversion 13:05 Virtual Machine Creation 16:28 Guest Additions 18:35 Activation & Configuration 22:20 Wrap #Windows #VirtualMachine #VM #VirtualBox #disk2vhd #ExplainingComputers