

My best attempt resulted in infinite "Booting from Hard Disk." using SeaBIOS, but it might have just been restricted by my limited KVM experience. I found a link to the recovery tool with an img file( Steam deck recovery image ), yet I had no luck booting from img and converting it to iso, qcow2, and vmdk for vmware workstation gave similar results.

Method 1: The easiest method is an image-based install using CloneZilla. (usually something like F8, F11, or F12 will bring up the BIOS boot menu).

Boot your machine and tell the BIOS to boot off the stick. Put the USB stick in your target machine. All utility of such VM aside (yes, there is basically none), I thought it would be an interesting challenge to try and run deck's SteamOS since the real deal will be unobtainable for quite some time. Currently, there are two different install methods for SteamOS. Download the SteamOS installation Unzip the SteamOS.zip file to a blank, FAT32-formatted USB stick.
