Philip,
this would be simply creating a disk image on the host system,
which is the standard method.
i'm actually trying to avoid this. i currently have windows
on /dev/sda1(installed natively). i'd like to have KVM run that
as the guest OS. is that possible? from what i can gather,
this functionality doesn't explicitly exist in KVM; i'd have to
hack your way through it.
thanks,
sam
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Philip Rhoades wrote:
Sam,
I have not been using virt-manager but:
Create an image file:
dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.img bs=1024 count=2000000000
or qemu has its own image creation tool:
qemu-img create -f qcow disk.img 2GB
or:
qemu-img create -f raw disk.img 2GB
Boot an ISO image to install to a disk image:
qemu -cdrom MicroXP_v0.82.iso -boot d disk.img
- I think I also needed to manually reboot with:
qemu -hda disk.img
After install, boot the img:
qemu-kvm disk.img
I saw a note that:
qemu-system-x86_64
should be used to prevent future problems but I don't know what that is about
yet . .
Hope that helps!
Regards,
Phil.