[fedora-virt] qemu-kvm to guest using physical Windows7 partition (on Fedora16)
Philip Rhoades
phil at pricom.com.au
Sun Jan 15 21:44:44 UTC 2012
Ademar,
On 2012-01-10 08:46, Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:11:44AM +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> Rich,
>>
>>
>> On 2012-01-05 21:05, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> >On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:27:29AM +0200, Dor Laor wrote:
>> >>On 01/03/2012 06:42 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
>> >>>On 01/02/2012 03:38 AM, Emanuel Rietveld wrote:
>> >>>>When you give qemu-kvm a partition to use as disk for a guest,
>> >>it does
>> >>>>exactly that. It uses the partition as a disk for the guest.
>> >>So, the
>> >>>>guest sees a *disk* while in the physical situation it's a
>> >>*partition*.
>> >>>>You may be able to do what you want by attaching a whole disk
>> >>to the
>> >>>>guest, instead of just the partition.
>>
>>
>> Not possible in my situation - I want to be able to dual boot OR run
>> Windows 7 as a guest using the same partition install.
>>
>
> You can use a small image with grub to boot the windows
> partition when running inside qemu. Basically a boot disk
> with grub pointing to your real partition as seen from qemu.
Do you mean something like:
/dev/vda:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 2097kB 1049kB bios_grub
/dev/sda:
1 2097kB 107MB 105MB ext4 ext4 boot
2 107MB 996GB 996GB ext4
3 996GB 1000GB 3950MB linux-swap(v1)
?
> I had my win7 partition booting this way under VirtualBox. It was
> working perfectly (no hardware issues, win7 is smart enough
> regarding auto-detection). *BUT* everytime I switched between the
> VM and the real hardware, I had to reactivate my windows license
> (which is legal, but cumbersome).
If the hardware was 100% under a virtualised Win7 I guess I might never
need to dual boot . .
> I gave up on trying to fix the license reactivation (my win7 is
> for games anyway). But if you manage to mimic your hardware well
> enough inside qemu (lots of variables) or trick windows
> somehow (legal?), it should work. Please report your steps if you
> succeed.
I am tempted to give it a go . .
Thanks,
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
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Australia
E-mail: phil at pricom.com.au
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