[fedora-virt] how to boot Windows partition as KVM/Qemu guest

[Philip Rhoades]

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.

On 2010-09-25 13:43, sam chan wrote:
>
>
> hello Philip,
>
> that's good to hear.  how do you configure this?  i'm using
> virt-manager.  thanks.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>
>> Sam,
>>
>>
>> On 2010-09-25 10:44, sam chan wrote:
>>>
>>> hello all,
>>>
>>> subject line says it all.
>>>
>>> i have a standard dual-boot of windows and linux.  would like
>>> to boot the windows partion as a KVM guest.  is it possible?
>>> i've searched, but haven't found a definitive answer.
>>>
>>> i'm running Fedora 14.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> sam
>>
>>
>> I have MicroXP running like that - although it gets very little use . .
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phil.
>> --
>> Philip Rhoades
>>
>> GPO Box 3411
>> Sydney NSW	2001
>> Australia
>> E-mail:  phil at pricom.com.au
>>
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