Re: Windows under KVM + dual boot

[David Abrahams <dave-UB3wUj7V41K5azolltMz9laTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>]

on Sun Apr 08 2007, David Abrahams <dave-UB3wUj7V41K5azolltMz9laTQe2KTcn/-AT-public.gmane.org> wrote:

> on Sun Apr 08 2007, David Abrahams <dave-UB3wUj7V41K5azolltMz9laTQe2KTcn/-AT-public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> on Sun Apr 08 2007, "Gregory Haskins" <GHaskins-AT-novell.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think it will turn out to be a pretty major problem, but probably
>>> not for the reason you might think.
>>>  
>>> I know Xen has the ability to point a vbd interface at a physical
>>> partition, and I believe KVM does as well though I am not familiar
>>> with it.  In theory you should be able to point the boot disk at your
>>> partition and have it come up as a guest.
>>>  
>>>  
>>> I think where you will run into problems is that windows won't really
>>> like have the system swapped out underneath it.  KVM presents its own
>>> set of virtualized PC resources that are undoubtedly divergent in some
>>> way from your bare metal machine.  
>>
>> That's what Windows hardware profiles are for, IIUC.  It seems people
>> also have to take extra steps to make sure all the necessary drivers
>> for running the VM are installed.  You might wanna read
>> http://www.motin.eu/www/mirror/physvmware/
>
> I figure the way to get the drivers is to install windows in the usual KVM
> way, then copy the drivers across to my windows partition.  We'll see
> how that works out.

I also found
http://www.advicesource.org/ubuntu/Run_Existing_Windows_Instalation_On_Ubuntu_With_Vmware_player.html

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Dave Abrahams
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