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: Keqin Hong; kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject

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 p.g.jo...@student.reading.ac.uk 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?

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 p.g.jo...@student.reading.ac.uk wrote: Where can I get the code

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 p.g.jo...@student.reading.ac.uk wrote: Hello, I am trying to run KVM machine from the image created as COW

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 Also qcow is obsolete, you'd better use qcow2 e.g. qemu-img create -b Ubuntu.img -F raw -f qcow2 /home/prasad/Virtual/Ubuntu_copy.ovl [r...@prasad images]# pwd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

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 p.g.jo...@student.reading.ac.uk 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

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 p.g.jo...@student.reading.ac.uk 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, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:08

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 p.g.jo...@student.reading.ac.uk wrote: From: Stefan Hajnoczi [stefa

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 p.g.jo...@student.reading.ac.uk 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