Re: [kvm-devel] Chaning disks from IDE to SCSI on a Windows VM

2008-04-16 Thread Elmar Haneke
> That's it. If anyone can attest to this procedures and report, it would > be greatly appreciated. I did try to do so But I do get an "disk read error". kvm is invoked via qemu-system-x86_64 \ -m 768 \ -drive file=Vista.img,if=scsi,bus=0,index=0,media=disk,boot=on \

Re: [kvm-devel] Chaning disks from IDE to SCSI on a Windows VM

2008-04-15 Thread Felix Leimbach
Jun, what happens when you boot into Windows' safe mode? It usually displays the drivers as it loads them. Would be interesting to see where it hangs. Also try this: * Boot with the IDE disk which works and the dummy SCSI disk attached as per Alberto's instructions * After you confirmed that the

Re: [kvm-devel] Chaning disks from IDE to SCSI on a Windows VM

2008-04-15 Thread Jun Koi
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Alberto Treviño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 April 2008 12:57:45 am Jun Koi wrote: > > Looks like a problem, however. In his instruction, part 3: > > >3. Shut down the VM. This time, don't include the new temporary > > > image from step 1 and defin

Re: [kvm-devel] Chaning disks from IDE to SCSI on a Windows VM

2008-04-15 Thread Alberto Treviño
On Tuesday 15 April 2008 12:57:45 am Jun Koi wrote: > Looks like a problem, however. In his instruction, part 3: > >3. Shut down the VM. This time, don't include the new temporary > > image from step 1 and define your disk(s) as SCSI disks: > > > > qemu-system-x86_64 -m 256 \ > >-drive file=h

Re: [kvm-devel] Chaning disks from IDE to SCSI on a Windows VM

2008-04-14 Thread Jun Koi
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Felix Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14.04.2008 Alberto Treviño wrote: > > If anyone can attest to this procedures and report, it would be > greatly appreciated. > > Hello Alberto, > > I can confirm that this method works on Windows 2003 Server. Look

Re: [kvm-devel] Chaning disks from IDE to SCSI on a Windows VM

2008-04-14 Thread Felix Leimbach
On 14.04.2008 Alberto Treviño wrote: > If anyone can attest to this procedures and report, it would be greatly appreciated. Hello Alberto, I can confirm that this method works on Windows 2003 Server. > Along those lines, if anyone knows how to grab an existing Windows VM that > was set up i

[kvm-devel] Chaning disks from IDE to SCSI on a Windows VM

2008-04-14 Thread Alberto Treviño
Anthony Liguori provided patches that allowed booting from SCSI disks back in December of 2005. He also reported the following: > I have successfully booted Linux, Win2k, and WinXP from SCSI with > this patch. Windows takes a bit of prep work to be able to boot from > SCSI. For win2k, you just