From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgWAg-0001vy-Gr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:24:22 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JgWAf-0001uT-43 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:24:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgWAe-0001uH-Vq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:24:21 -0400 Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com ([64.233.178.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JgWAe-0002qM-Qe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:24:20 -0400 Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k27so1600968hsc.2 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47F19CD0.3050709@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:24:16 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Are VM snapshots on Ubuntu host compatible with Fedora host? References: <47E1B6FB.7080306@quinthar.com> <47E342FF.5010703@quinthar.com> <47F19456.20807@quinthar.com> In-Reply-To: <47F19456.20807@quinthar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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: > > qemu: warning: error while loading state for instance 0x0 of device 'ram' > qemu: fatal: triple fault > > 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 > > David Barrett wrote: >> Good idea, but no luck -- same failure. >> >> Mulyadi Santosa wrote: >>> Hi.. >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:59 AM, David Barrett >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > >