Re: Windows under KVM + dual boot

["Gregory Haskins" <ghaskins-Et1tbQHTxzrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

>>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2007 at  2:45 PM, in message <871wiu1z91.fsf-plj1z4F0hBxDlgNbCJLFcg@public.gmane.org>,
David Abrahams <dave-UB3wUj7V41K5azolltMz9laTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> wrote: 

> on Sun Apr 08 2007, "Gregory Haskins" <GHaskins- AT- novell.com> wrote:
> 
>> I think it will turn out to be a pretty major problem, but probably
>> not for the reason you might think.
>>  
>> I know Xen has the ability to point a vbd interface at a physical
>> partition, and I believe KVM does as well though I am not familiar
>> with it.  In theory you should be able to point the boot disk at your
>> partition and have it come up as a guest.
>>  
>>  
>> I think where you will run into problems is that windows won't really
>> like have the system swapped out underneath it.  KVM presents its own
>> set of virtualized PC resources that are undoubtedly divergent in some
>> way from your bare metal machine.  
> 
> That's what Windows hardware profiles are for, IIUC.  It seems people
> also have to take extra steps to make sure all the necessary drivers
> for running the VM are installed.  You might wanna read
> http://www.motin.eu/www/mirror/physvmware/
> 


Interesting.  Thanks for the link!

Do post to the list/wiki if you get this to work.  As I mentioned, I am pretty sure you should be able to do this with KVM (I am just not sure how off the top of my head).

-Greg

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