From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:20:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090213002043.GC805@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499498B4.8060602@cisco.com>
David S. Ahern wrote:
> Has anyone successfully ported a Windows XP image from vmware server to
> kvm/qemu?
>
> My attempt is getting a blue screen that disappears very quickly --
> something about a corrupted image. I can attach the disk image as a
> second drive to another XP instance -- one created with kvm and running
> on it -- and the original disk image seems to be fine.
It's possible QEMU's vmware-format disk image code has a bug.
Did you run with the vmware disk image directly, or convert to a raw
format using VMware's own tool first? If not, and the raw size isn't
too large, try that.
-- Jamie
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-13 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-12 21:46 running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu David S. Ahern
2009-02-12 21:49 ` Mark Bidewell
2009-02-12 21:51 ` David S. Ahern
2009-02-12 22:19 ` Harald Braumann
2009-02-12 22:07 ` Martin Maurer
2009-02-13 22:02 ` David S. Ahern
2009-02-13 0:20 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
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