From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXlnT-0005T6-Bl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:20:47 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXlnR-0005RV-9o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:20:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50349 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXlnR-0005RN-6E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:20:45 -0500 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:47089) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LXlnQ-0000ay-Tc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:20:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:20:43 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu Message-ID: <20090213002043.GC805@shareable.org> References: <499498B4.8060602@cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <499498B4.8060602@cisco.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: kvm-devel 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