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

[Daniel Sanabria]

I know you can use vmware converter (i'm done this myself in the past) it
will allow you to convert  local and remote physical machines into virtual
machines most likely in vkdm format that you can then run from kvm.

Not sure if libguestfs or any other open source tool allows you to do this,
but I'd certainly love to see an open source alternative to this approach.

Danieo

On 26 September 2010 12:01, Dor Laor <dlaor at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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
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