On 11/25/2009 11:36 AM, Michael N. Moran wrote:
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
Restore isn't what you want here, and though the above error sounds scary it is actually correct. Restore starts a VM that was previously 'saved', which is kind of like suspend to ram on a physical machine. You should be able to use virt-install --import to get what you want, something like virt-install --name foo --ram 1024 --os-variant winxp --import --disk path=/path/to/your/disk/image ... - Cole