From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:20:43 +0000 Message-ID: <20090213002043.GC805@shareable.org> References: <499498B4.8060602@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm-devel To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Return-path: Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:41002 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750896AbZBMAUo (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:20:44 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <499498B4.8060602@cisco.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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