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! >> > > Unfortunately, KVM core dumps the instant I select XP from my grub > menu. By contrast, it will happily launch a linux kernel (on > partitions other than the ones I'm booted into; don't worry). This > makes me think that it's probably not a driver problem, although I > could of course be wrong. > > Anyone care to help me diagnose this one? >
We probably misemulate something that grub uses when chainloading another bootloader. A good test is running with -no-kvm. The gdb backtrace from the core dump is also interesting. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
