Re: [Qemu-devel] Are VM snapshots on Ubuntu host compatible with Fedora host?

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

David Barrett wrote:
> Following up on this, I created a brand-new WinXP image from scratch 
> (on my Ubuntu box), uploaded to my headless Fedora box, and it still 
> has the  exact same crash:
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> qemu: warning: error while loading state for instance 0x0 of device 'ram'
> qemu: fatal: triple fault
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> So is it safe to say that QEMU VM snapshots are not transferable 
> between hosts?

KVM images are not compatible with QEMU.  If one of your servers is 
running KVM, that's likely your problem.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -david
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> David Barrett wrote:
>> Good idea, but no luck -- same failure.
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>> Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
>>> Hi..
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:59 AM, David Barrett 
>>> <dbarrett@quinthar.com> wrote:
>>>> Should I be able to use "loadvm" on one computer to load a VM snapshot
>>>>  created with "savevm" on another?
>>>>
>>>>  Essentially, I've got my image working great on a local box (dual CPU
>>>>  Ubuntu), and  I've got qemu working on one of my servers (quad CPU
>>>>  Fedora Core 4), so I've uploaded the guest image to the server and 
>>>> tried
>>>>  to start it.  Unfortunately, it reliably spits out the following:
>>>>
>>>>   > qemu -nographic -serial vc -smb qemu -kernel-kqemu -localtime 
>>>> -m 512
>>>>  -monitor stdio -loadvm boot winxp.qcow2
>>>
>>> Fast advice, try to take out "-kernel-kqemu" and check if it helps 
>>> somehow.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> Mulyadi.
>>>
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