15 May
2014
15 May
'14
3:03 p.m.
You can definitely install enough drivers so that both bare-metal and virtual will boot. But what you cannot do is prevent the pci bus from changing - the bare-metal boot WILL see different hardware than the virtual boot, and windows is picky enough that it WILL require re-registration every time the hardware changes that drastically. There's no way around it.
Ok then. I was going toward mounting the w8 as loop device inside a raw image, but I understand it will break the bare-metal boot. So let's go with two w8 (or one VM only and no physical w8). Thank you for your vise advices.