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, "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.

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