Hello again all. Afraid I've another long winded post to ask a simple question.
I have an HP EliteDesk running Win 10 Pro. When I decided to turn my entire home network Mint Cinnamon only, this HP was my daily user. Come to find out, after many hours, and a few hours on the phone with tech support, I discovered that this unit was set up to only use windows. Only HP can unlock the bios. Well, I did find a tech that could do it, but it would cost more than a new unit. So in the closet it went.
Now, I have been trying for days now to get a windows game running using a combination of Wine, Winetricks, PlayOnLinux, and Lutris. I understand the basic premise of all of those things. Just as I know the basic premise of a Nuclear reactor. But don't ask me to build one.
Needless to say, I have been unsuccessful to this point. At least I've been doing all this in a cloned VM so whenever things get FUBAAR, I just delete and re-clone.
Then I had an idea. But I don't know if it's possible so I thought I would poll you kind folks and get some advice. All I need is a Virtual machine running Windows. And, I have a paid for, registered installation right there on that HP.
So, my question is how do I get the OS from one place to another? Ideally, a bootable .iso that I could install just like any other .iso. Or, workable but much less desirable, a dual boot Mint / windows set up.
Got my fingers crossed here.
I have an HP EliteDesk running Win 10 Pro. When I decided to turn my entire home network Mint Cinnamon only, this HP was my daily user. Come to find out, after many hours, and a few hours on the phone with tech support, I discovered that this unit was set up to only use windows. Only HP can unlock the bios. Well, I did find a tech that could do it, but it would cost more than a new unit. So in the closet it went.
Now, I have been trying for days now to get a windows game running using a combination of Wine, Winetricks, PlayOnLinux, and Lutris. I understand the basic premise of all of those things. Just as I know the basic premise of a Nuclear reactor. But don't ask me to build one.
Needless to say, I have been unsuccessful to this point. At least I've been doing all this in a cloned VM so whenever things get FUBAAR, I just delete and re-clone.
Then I had an idea. But I don't know if it's possible so I thought I would poll you kind folks and get some advice. All I need is a Virtual machine running Windows. And, I have a paid for, registered installation right there on that HP.
So, my question is how do I get the OS from one place to another? Ideally, a bootable .iso that I could install just like any other .iso. Or, workable but much less desirable, a dual boot Mint / windows set up.
Got my fingers crossed here.
