Quoting Randall Webstuff <randallwebstuff(a)gmail.com&gt;: The only thing that could require some fixing inside your 'image' is the Grub configuration. And the doubt comes from the ignorance of the inner workings of grub . For the XML, do not forget: - the part that says to kvm which is the name of the disk inside kvm, so that it matches the name it had in the machine, - the part that says to use an emulator that matches the old physical CPU. -- ing. Gian Uberto Lauri Ricercatore / Reasearcher Divisione Ricerca ed Innovazione / Research & Innovation Division GianUberto.Lauri(a)eng.it Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa Corso Stati Uniti 23/C, 35127 Padova (PD) Tel. +39-049.8283.571 | main(){printf(&unix["\021%six\012\0"], Fax +39-049.8283.569 | (unix)["have"]+"fun"-0x60);} Skype: gian.uberto.lauri | David Korn, AT&T Bell Labs http://www.eng.it | ioccc best One Liner, 1987