Philip,
this would be simply creating a disk image on the host system, which is the standard method. i'm actually trying to avoid this. i currently have windows on /dev/sda1(installed natively). i'd like to have KVM run that as the guest OS. is that possible? from what i can gather, this functionality doesn't explicitly exist in KVM; i'd have to hack your way through it. thanks, sam On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Sam, > > I have not been using virt-manager but: > > Create an image file: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.img bs=1024 count=2000000000 > > or qemu has its own image creation tool: > > qemu-img create -f qcow disk.img 2GB > > or: > > qemu-img create -f raw disk.img 2GB > > Boot an ISO image to install to a disk image: > > qemu -cdrom MicroXP_v0.82.iso -boot d disk.img > > - I think I also needed to manually reboot with: > > qemu -hda disk.img > > After install, boot the img: > > qemu-kvm disk.img > > I saw a note that: > > qemu-system-x86_64 > > should be used to prevent future problems but I don't know what that is about > yet . . > > Hope that helps! > > Regards, > > Phil. > _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
