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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.


      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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