From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Mike Power <mpower@dodtsair.mine.nu>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Migrating from Xen 3.2 to KVM
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:39:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4967A7FE.1090900@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231486887.10028.4.camel@localhost>
Mike Power wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I currently (I think) have XP installed on an LVM
> volume /dev/mapper/vol_group1-windows. I have been trying to power this
> VM up on KVM (Ubuntu 8.10 dropped Xen). Come to think of it I am not
> even sure if the on disk format KVM expects is the same the Xen wrote to
> disk.
>
>
If you're using an lvm volume. the on-disk format is the same.
> What is the likely hood that I will succeed?
>
I'm surprised it failed -- kvm and Xen use the same device model (qemu)
so they should be highly compatible.
> At this time using the attached config file I boot up into the windows
> boot strap. I immediately hit the safe mode menu. Once I step pass the
> safe mode menu then the vm reboots. Known problem?
>
Anything interesting in dmesg? Any Xen specific drivers installed?
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 7:41 Migrating from Xen 3.2 to KVM Mike Power
2009-01-09 8:11 ` Sheng Yang
2009-01-09 18:12 ` Todd Deshane
2009-01-09 19:39 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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