From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gregory Haskins" Subject: Re: Windows under KVM + dual boot Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:06:00 -0400 Message-ID: <46192EFA.BA47.005A.0@novell.com> References: <4618DDA80200005A0002267C@mcclure.wal.novell.com> <4618DDAF0200005A0002267F@mcclure.wal.novell.com> <4618DDAF0200005A0002267F@mcclure.wal.novell.com><4618DDAF0200005A0002267F@mcclure.wal.novell.com> (Gregory Haskins's message of "Sun\, 08 Apr 2007 12\:18\:55 -0400") <871wiu1z91.fsf@valverde.peloton> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: "David Abrahams" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <871wiu1z91.fsf-plj1z4F0hBxDlgNbCJLFcg@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org >>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2007 at 2:45 PM, in message <871wiu1z91.fsf-plj1z4F0hBxDlgNbCJLFcg@public.gmane.org>, David Abrahams wrote: > on Sun Apr 08 2007, "Gregory Haskins" 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV