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

[Dor Laor]

On 09/26/2010 07:47 AM, sam chan wrote:
> 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.

With some basic hacking it should be fine.
One will need to convince the window guests that instead of using a 
partition it has a full disk now (virtualized). There might even be a 
chance that it will just work.

Another obstacle is to change the windows boot driver from whatever it 
is on physical (scsi/sata) to either virtio or ide.

You can learn those things out of the v2v tool (libguestfs).

Thanks,
Dor