Re: Unable to start VM using COWed image

2010-11-11 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Prasad Joshi wrote: > Though specifying the absolute path for source image worked for me. > Can any one please let me know the situation in which one would not want to > specify the absolute path? > How does relative path help? > Advantage of using relative path

RE: Unable to start VM using COWed image

2010-11-11 Thread Prasad Joshi
> From: Prasad Joshi > Sent: 10 November 2010 13:01 > To: Stefan Hajnoczi > Cc: Keqin Hong; kvm@vger.kernel.org > Subject: RE: Unable to start VM using COWed image > From: Stefan Hajnoczi [stefa...@gmail.com] > Sent: 10 November 2010 12:47 > To: Prasad Joshi > Cc: Keqi

RE: Unable to start VM using COWed image

2010-11-10 Thread Prasad Joshi
> From: Stefan Hajnoczi [stefa...@gmail.com] > Sent: 10 November 2010 12:47 > To: Prasad Joshi > Cc: Keqin Hong; kvm@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Unable to start VM using COWed image > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Prasad Joshi wrote: >> From: Stefan Hajnoczi [ste

Re: Unable to start VM using COWed image

2010-11-10 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Prasad Joshi wrote: >> From: Stefan Hajnoczi [stefa...@gmail.com] >> Sent: 10 November 2010 11:12 >> To: Prasad Joshi >> Cc: Keqin Hong; kvm@vger.kernel.org >> Subject: Re: Unable to start VM using COWed image > > On Wed, No

Re: Unable to start VM using COWed image

2010-11-10 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Prasad Joshi wrote: > Where can I get the code of the qemu-kvm program? > I cloned the qemu-lvm git repository and compiled the code. But it looks like > qemu-kvm program is not part of this code.-- qemu-kvm.git contains the qemu-kvm codebase but the binary is b

RE: Unable to start VM using COWed image

2010-11-10 Thread Prasad Joshi
Thanks a lot for your reply. > From: Keqin Hong [kh...@redhat.com] > Sent: 10 November 2010 01:56 > To: Prasad Joshi > Subject: Re: Unable to start VM using COWed image > - "Prasad Joshi" wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to run KVM machine from the image

RE: Unable to start VM using COWed image

2010-11-10 Thread Prasad Joshi
> try adding "-F base-fmt". Also qcow is obsolete, you'd better use qcow2 > e.g. qemu-img create -b Ubuntu.img -F raw -f qcow2 > /home/prasad/Virtual/Ubuntu_copy.ovl [r...@prasad images]# pwd /var/lib/libvirt/images [r...@prasad images]# date; qemu-img create -b Ubuntu.img -F raw -f qcow2 /hom

RE: Unable to start VM using COWed image

2010-11-10 Thread Prasad Joshi
> From: Stefan Hajnoczi [stefa...@gmail.com] > Sent: 10 November 2010 11:12 > To: Prasad Joshi > Cc: Keqin Hong; kvm@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Unable to start VM using COWed image On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Prasad Joshi wrote: > Where can I get the code of the qem

Re: Unable to start VM using COWed image

2010-11-09 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Prasad Joshi wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to run KVM machine from the image created as COW from the > original image. But it not working. > > Screenshot that shows the KVM works with the original image > >  [r...@prasad images]# qemu-kvm /var/lib/libvirt/images/