I have laptop with Windows 8.1 preinstalled. I want to keep the Windows for things like BIOS updates, as fallback booting option, or whatever, but not waste space on the internal hard disk for it. Can I clone the image to an external USB disk and expect it to be bootable? Are there ways to make it work?
I can boot Ubuntu from USB, that is no problem.
Next step, if everything is working, would be to try to move Windows to a VM. Is this usually within the license? Apple allows the same thing if the VM is running on Apple hardware, as i could find online. I made this work for Windows XP, but things have changed