I think it will turn out to be a pretty major problem, but probably not for the reason you might think. I know Xen has the ability to point a vbd interface at a physical partition, and I believe KVM does as well though I am not familiar with it. In theory you should be able to point the boot disk at your partition and have it come up as a guest. I think where you will run into problems is that windows won't really like have the system swapped out underneath it. KVM presents its own set of virtualized PC resources that are undoubtedly divergent in some way from your bare metal machine. Trying to do what you are proposing is akin to taking your boot hdd out of a white box and putting it into another with a completely different motherboard/video/sound etc layout. If you've ever tried this, you will know what I mean. It may work, it may not. It will certainly thrash around a bit as it discovers all the new devices each time you switch between bare metal and guest. Generally, the best thing to do IMHO is install windows fresh on the given platform. Linux is much better in this regard, but even here you may hit some problems. If you do manage to get it working, let us know. But I think success here will be on a case by case basis. -Greg -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [email protected] BCC: Gregory Haskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Creation Date: 4/7 9:12 pm Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] Windows under KVM + dual boot David Abrahams wrote: > I want to be able to launch the same windows installation under KVM/Linux > that I can also boot into directly. Are there instructions somewhere > for that? > > I could try to adapt http://www.motin.eu/www/mirror/physvmware/, but I > would prefer to have something more kvm-specific if possible. > I'm not aware of anyone doing this currently although I suspect that it's definitely possible. If you have any success, documenting it in the wiki would be greatly appreciated! Regards, Anthony Liguori > Thanks in advance, > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
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