From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sheng Yang Subject: Re: Migrating from Xen 3.2 to KVM Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:11:00 +0800 Message-ID: <200901091611.00403.sheng@linux.intel.com> References: <1231486887.10028.4.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Mike Power To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mga06.intel.com ([134.134.136.21]:51461 "EHLO orsmga101.jf.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751031AbZAIILF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 03:11:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1231486887.10028.4.camel@localhost> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 09 January 2009 15:41:27 Mike Power wrote: > Hello, > > I currently (I think) have XP installed on an LVM > volume /dev/mapper/vol_group1-windows. I have been trying to power this > VM up on KVM (Ubuntu 8.10 dropped Xen). Come to think of it I am not > even sure if the on disk format KVM expects is the same the Xen wrote to > disk. > > What is the likely hood that I will succeed? > > At this time using the attached config file I boot up into the windows > boot strap. I immediately hit the safe mode menu. Once I step pass the > safe mode menu then the vm reboots. Known problem? > Hi Mike Did you use some Xen specific driver in the image? If so, that's a problem... You can post dmesg here also. >>From the description above, I think you are using KVM distributed by Ubuntu? I checked KVM version from Ubuntu upstream, seems it's kvm-72, and now it's kvm-82... You can refer to http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/HOWTO1 to try new KVM release. -- regards Yang, Sheng