First, I am a casual VM user. I have been using Fedora Core 7 on my Dell laptop for a couple of years with a single QEMU/KVM guest running Windoze XP. I recently installed Fedora 12 on a new hard disk and would like to use my old Windows VM image on the new install. Is there an easy way to do this? I tried copying the image itself (WindozeXpDisk.raw) to the new install and then (naively) looked for an import on the Virtual Machine Manager GUI. The closest that I found was the File->Restore saved machine. I tried that on my WindozeXpDisk.raw image and it failed as follows: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/manager.py", line 461, in restore_saved_callback newconn.restore(file_to_load) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 649, in restore self.vmm.restore(frm) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1420, in restore if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainRestore() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: operation failed: image magic is incorrect I *can* mount the image using kpartx et. al like this; sudo kpartx -av /var/virt/WindozeXpDisk.raw add map loop1p1 (253:2): 0 31101777 linear /dev/loop1 63 sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/mapper/loop0p1 ./mnt Any clues would be helpful. thank you, mike