[fedora-virt] Problem porting winxp vm from F12 to rh el 5.4

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sat Mar 20 08:04:44 UTC 2010


On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 08:41:58AM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> windows XP + qcow2 disk combination perhaps

Seems unlikely ...

> Is this correct? What exactly does it mean "fedora-13" (that in rh el is
> instead "pc")?
> Is it something comparable to virtual hw version of VMware guests, that
> should say what kind of hw features that vm can have?

Yes.  It doesn't matter for booting, but Windows might trigger
"Activation" once it has booted if the hardware is sufficiently
different.

Rich.

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