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* On modern versions of Windows, turn off Fast Startup in the Control Panel.

* Shutdown your VM, and copy its hard disk to a Btrfs partition.
* Surprisingly, there isn't an easy way to copy an NTFS volume exactly - you can try using
robocopy on Windows, but you'll run into files you can't easily access, even as Admin. [RunAsTI](https://github.com/jschicht/RunAsTI)
helps, but it's still not easy. Robocopy doesn't like symlinks, either.
* Better, you can mount the volume on Linux and use rsync. This does have the down side that
you'll lose the DOS attributes and the security descriptors.

* On Windows 8, you will need to use icacls to give C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\LocalLow a
mandatory integrity level of "Low", otherwise it will crash on login.

* On some versions of Windows 10 (1607 to 1803?), you will need to give the pseudo-group
"ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES" access to C:\Windows\Fonts, or you'll have the amusing sight of
Windows not being able to display any text.
* Shutdown your VM, and copy its hard disk to a Btrfs partition. The best way is to use [Ntfs2btrfs](https://github.com/maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs)
to do in-place conversion, which will also preserve your metadata.

* Extract the Quibble package into your EFI System Partition. It's supposed to work in a subdirectory,
but if you have trouble you might need to put it in the root.
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