On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 11:56 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to port a windows XP vm created from F12 host to ah rh el > 5.4 host. > The hd format is qcow2. I know that it is not supported in rh el, > reading docs (and probably also in 5.5 it will not be supported). > I started with virsh dumpxml in F12 and then with virsh create in rh > el 5.4. > I had to change the path to qemu-kvm, the "machine=" definition from > "f13" to "pc" and audio card model from es1370 to ac97 and then I was > able to create it. > Starting the vm in rh el 5.4 host I got it stuck at message > Booting from hd.... > > > The OS was already installed and restarted one time in F12 host... > If I set to boot from CD and put the Win xp one, then it probably > recognizes that an xp os is already installed and starts saying > press any key in 10 seconds to start from cd > > > I don't press any key, and it correctly starts the winxp os form > hd.... > Actually I'm seeing that the same behavior is in place in F12 where I > forgot to keep of the "boot from cd" option... ;-( > So it seems a general problem, perhaps about boot sector or something > else... > Any clue on this and how to solve the need to keep the winxp cd inside > to be able to boot? >
There is a bug dealing with this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473154 The fix for Fedora 12 is currently in updates-testing. In the meantime, you can either keep any CD in the drive, or remove the CDROM from the virtual machine config. Thanks, Justin _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
