Re: [Qemu-devel] running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu

Jamie Lokier
2009-02-13T00:20:44Z

David S. Ahern wrote:
> Has anyone successfully ported a Windows XP image from vmware server to
> kvm/qemu?
>
> My attempt is getting a blue screen that disappears very quickly --
> something about a corrupted image. I can attach the disk image as a
> second drive to another XP instance -- one created with kvm and running
> on it -- and the original disk image seems to be fine.

It's possible QEMU's vmware-format disk image code has a bug.

Did you run with the vmware disk image directly, or convert to a raw
format using VMware's own tool first? If not, and the raw size isn't
too large, try that.

-- Jamie