Re: How to convert a physical drive (running Vista) as VM to be run on KVM

Hi Thomas, Thanks for your advice. Quoting Thomas Beinicke thomas.beini...@fsd-web.de: - snip - When you dd off a device it will always be raw format, kvm will recognize it as raw even though the extension is qcow2. If you really want a qcow container you have to convert it with

How to convert a physical drive (running Vista) as VM to be run on KVM

Hi folks, Host - Fedora 12 64bit Windows Vista 32bit - running another drive KVM $ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0003a4bf Device Boot Start