Bob Tennent wrote: > I'm experimenting with kvm on a Fedora 8 system. I've installed the > necessary packages, have a suitable CPU etc. I'll eventually aim for > a Windows guest, but am trying out a virtual Fedora 8 guest. When I > try to install a Fedora guest, it threatens to wipe and re-partition > the whole drive. It does this whether I specify an installation file > or partition in virt-manager. Can I ignore this? I don't want my whole > installation wiped. Is the hypervisor presenting the Fedora install with > a file/parition and making it think it has a whole drive? > > Bob T. >
KVM guests see a virtual disk (which usually does not contain the host installation). To be on the safe side use a disk-image-file and verify that your guest finds no partitions and specifically no linux partition where the host fedora is installed. And/Or let us know the command line you are using. And/Or use the following, taken from KVM Wiki, which is safe (location/name of executables may vary): /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow vdisk.img 10G sudo /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -hda vdisk.img -cdrom /path/to/boot-media.iso \ -boot d -m 384 Uri ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
