kvm, ubuntu 7.10 & vmware

Jared Greenwald
2007-09-26T17:26:17Z

I'm trying to get a pre-built vmware image of Windows running on
ubuntu 7.10. I tried running qemu directly on the vmdk file, but that
is extremely slow. For example, it takes about a minute to get the
context menu to come up when you right-click on the desktop. I tried
converting the vmdk to qcow, qcow2 and raw formats, but I get an error
saying that the drive is not bootable. I looked through the help
pages and there is information about loading the kvm-intel module, but
I'm getting the "not supported" error message. I looked into updating
the bios as this is usually pointed to as the cause and it appears I'm
at the most recent version.

So, the question is, am I missing something or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Jared