Is it possible to run from Win7pro SSD on Hyper-v or VMware?

Question

VMware

Good afternoon, the question is this:

there is an SSD hard drive with Windows 7 Pro installed - on a PC.

I want to pull it out of one system unit and tuck it into another. And work in this Windows 7 Pro from the same physical disk in a virtual environment. And then when you need to return it.

Maybe?

PS: I tried tricks to connect via SATA > USB 3 adapter and do "offline", selects it in Hyper-V & VMware - but it doesn't start....

Answer 1

Through the adapter will not come out, you can not load Windows on yusb 3. (It's possible, but hemorrhoids.)
Your option is to create a virtual machine, in Windows, reset the firewood to the standard ones, throw the disk into the virtual machine, boot up. We also drop firewood back and load. (in vmware esxi you can definitely forward the disk without problems)
There is also Windows GO (or it was, and then for the corporate one officially) I once tried roofing felts 7 roofing felts 8pro through some software, I got an error and I scored.
I remembered another option, this is to drive the Windows image into the VHD and boot from it, but I personally didn’t try to boot the machine directly from it into the virtual machine.
In general, these are all crutches and sheepskin is not worth the candle.

Answer 2

I remember exactly in vmware (yes, in almost all, virtualbox, kvm) you can connect a physical disk (or even just one partition) as a virtual machine disk.
Those. no need to forward controllers, you need to logically connect the disk.
upd: in hyper-v, in the virtual machine settings, go to the scsi controller, select Hard Disk, select Physical Disk
If it is not available, then there are no available disks in the offline state (you can change the status in diskpart or computer management - disk management - right button on disk (not partition)