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

[Kenneth Armstrong]

Is virt-p2v usable again?  The last I heard it was being (slowly) rewritten.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Thomas Sjolshagen
<thomas at sjolshagen.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:16:47 -0400, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> [SNIP]
>
>>
>> Also, the bigger problem is that the hardware will look completely
>> different to windows, so you'll almost certainly be forced to
>> activate again, then you'd probably never be able to dual boot.
>
> Historically, the workaround for that has been to switch the PCI/ACPI
> libraries in Windows to the generic ones (and away from the chip-set
> specific ones). Then you (re)activate that configuration and if few
> enough "things" (pieces of HW) are changed the activation process should
> not get (re)triggered.
>
> IIRC, there used to be a "no more than two changes between boots or the
> activation needs to be redone" rule, but that could have changed.
> Keeping in mind that a memory size change beyond a certain percentage
> would count as a "thing changed", as does a new graphics adapter, etc,
> etc.
>
> // Thomas
> _______________________________________________
> virt mailing list
> virt at lists.fedoraproject.org
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
>