I want to install a virtual machine running win10

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Before I reinstalled Tumbleweed I had an Virtual machine running.

I already downloaded a win 10 iso.

Questions:
I am reading about using a real windows install. There is real install of win 10 on my pc.

But before I had it working, with two partitions on my second harddisk.
Now It seems when I try to set up a new virtual machine, it seems it wants to use my mvme disk, which I don’t like.

guus@localhost:~> lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0 931,5G  0 disk 
├─sda1        8:1    0   529M  0 part 
├─sda2        8:2    0    99M  0 part 
├─sda3        8:3    0    16M  0 part 
└─sda4        8:4    0 930,9G  0 part 
sdb           8:16   0 931,5G  0 disk 
├─sdb1        8:17   0   512M  0 part 
├─sdb2        8:18   0  48,8G  0 part 
├─sdb3        8:19   0 800,8G  0 part 
├─sdb4        8:20   0     2G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sdb5        8:21   0  79,4G  0 part 
nvme0n1     259:0    0 931,5G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   512M  0 part /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0   931G  0 part /var
                                      /usr/local
                                      /home
                                      /root
                                      /srv
                                      /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi
                                      /opt
                                      /boot/grub2/i386-pc
                                      /.snapshots
                                      /
guus@localhost:~>

I think I was using sdb5 and sdb2 for win10.

But how to be sure? sdb also has leap installed. Don’t wanna mess that up.
Or maybe I should, format the disk and clean up?

swap is linked to my tumbleweed install, on nvme.
sda is win 10.

Any advice and or tips, on how you guys would do it ?
sdb5 was too small, so I manged to add sdb2, if I recall right.

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You don’t need a dedicated partition for that. Check out the following.

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That page is not very helpfull for me.

But digging in my memory, I am starting to remember stuff.

The partition sdb5 still has a older win10 iso. This confirms for me I was using, sdb5 for the virtual machine, I was running.

It might even still work, but how to figure out if it does?
Because I reinstalled Tumbleweed, and formatted that nvme disk, a folder is gone.
This folder was used as a mount point.

I think I should start a new topic, called repair a virtual machine.

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