Fedora 8 as kvm guest

Fedora 8 as kvm guest

[Bob Tennent]

I'm experimenting with kvm on a Fedora 8 system. I've installed the
necessary packages, have a suitable CPU etc. I'll eventually aim for
a Windows guest, but am trying out a virtual Fedora 8 guest. When I
try to install a Fedora guest, it threatens to wipe and re-partition
the whole drive. It does this whether I specify an installation file
or partition in virt-manager. Can I ignore this? I don't want my whole
installation wiped. Is the hypervisor presenting the Fedora install with
a file/parition and making it think it has a whole drive?

Bob T.

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Re: Fedora 8 as kvm guest

[Uri Lublin]

Bob Tennent wrote:
> I'm experimenting with kvm on a Fedora 8 system. I've installed the
> necessary packages, have a suitable CPU etc. I'll eventually aim for
> a Windows guest, but am trying out a virtual Fedora 8 guest. When I
> try to install a Fedora guest, it threatens to wipe and re-partition
> the whole drive. It does this whether I specify an installation file
> or partition in virt-manager. Can I ignore this? I don't want my whole
> installation wiped. Is the hypervisor presenting the Fedora install with
> a file/parition and making it think it has a whole drive?
>
> Bob T.
>   

KVM guests see a virtual disk (which usually does not contain the host 
installation).
To be on the safe side use a disk-image-file and verify that your guest 
finds no partitions and specifically no linux partition where the host 
fedora is installed.
And/Or let us know the command line you are using.
And/Or use the following, taken from KVM Wiki, which is safe 
(location/name of executables may vary):

/usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow vdisk.img 10G
sudo /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -hda vdisk.img -cdrom /path/to/boot-media.iso \ 
   -boot d  -m 384

Uri

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Re: Fedora 8 as kvm guest

[Avi Kivity]

Bob Tennent wrote:
> I'm experimenting with kvm on a Fedora 8 system. I've installed the
> necessary packages, have a suitable CPU etc. I'll eventually aim for
> a Windows guest, but am trying out a virtual Fedora 8 guest. When I
> try to install a Fedora guest, it threatens to wipe and re-partition
> the whole drive. It does this whether I specify an installation file
> or partition in virt-manager. Can I ignore this? I don't want my whole
> installation wiped. Is the hypervisor presenting the Fedora install with
> a file/parition and making it think it has a whole drive?
>   

Yes, it's a virtual drive that is implemented as a file on the host.

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