From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Migrating from Xen 3.2 to KVM Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:39:42 +0200 Message-ID: <4967A7FE.1090900@redhat.com> References: <1231486887.10028.4.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Power Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:60531 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752069AbZAITj0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:39:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1231486887.10028.4.camel@localhost> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.