Saitama. He’ll kick your ass before he realizes you’re trying to fight him.

Seventies baby here. We worried a lot about nuclear war, but the threat of nuclear war is probably greater now than it was then. It just doesn’t crack the top ten anymore. That’s how incredibly fucked everything is.

The host browser process crashed, not the host OS.

It is kinda crazy. It occurred to me that I should try to reproduce this on a physical Windows machine before I report to the QEMU guys. Could be a Windows flaw.

It was reproducible. See post edit.

Good idea. Weirdly no errors in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<box>.log or in journalctl for libvirtd. Maybe devs can advise on other places to look.

I’ve moved a dozen or so now doing them one at a time. No issues so far.

When you figure it out, please let me know.

Forgot to include the boot/system volume. It’s a lovely time waster when you’re dealing with disk images that are hundreds of gigabytes in size that have to be copied over the network. 😆

I’ll add Disk2hvd screenshots when I get a sec.

Situation gets slightly more complicated if you had multiple drives in your system when you installed Windows, of course. Installer might put system volume on a different drive, so you’d have to image more than one drive to get a working system. Might get a little confusing as to which volumes should go in which image. There’s a tool called GWMI that might help with that since afaik the volume guids don’t show up in the Windows Disk Management snap-in.

Edit: The promised screenshot. In my case, I knew the volume labelled SYSTEM resided on the same disk as my C: drive. Probably don’t have to include the recovery partition, strictly speaking, but I did.

Well before today, I’d never heard of virtio-win, and I’d never used KVM/QEMU for virtualization on Linux, and despite an error on my part I had a running VM by close of business. Thanks for stopping by.

Oh wow! Thanks for this. I’m learning.

Oh huh. Is that a QEMU option? I’m new to all this.

Oh are you talking about Thunderbird, the email client?

Sorry but what is the “write page” please?

Or a fix for accidentally closing something when scrolling vertically through open tabs. This still happens to me daily. Going on a year now. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/option-to-disable-side-swipe-gesture-to-close-a-tab/idi-p/48053

Edit: Added link

Indeed I do.

FWIW I had the same issue under Fedora 40 Bazzite. For a bit I was having to shut down to avoid the problem you describe, and then they changed something else and I couldn’t even shut down cleanly from within the DE. Things have been sooo much better since the upgrade to 41.

I’m so sorry. I strongly suspect this happened to me as well. To this day I’ve never mentioned the evidence I had of her infidelity to anyone, because I’m a better person that she is. My former friends likely discovered this for themselves in due course.

Worst example is friend who, after being hospitalized for accident while car surfing, died car surfing again. I wasn’t present for either event.

Second worst is dude with head injury (unrelated) started talking about crystals and toxins and juice fasting. Called him out one day, and it was catastrophic. This one is still alive, at least AFAIK.

Third, divorce. You will find out who your real friends are when you get divorced.