Re: [libvirt-users] Virtualizing a an old SuSE system

On 02/25/2012 07:42 PM, Dale Amon wrote: > I'm in the midst of an attempt to convert an > old and rather large SuSE server (5 disks) into > a virsh loadable VM. Has anyone else dealt with > the issues of systems of this sort? I'm at the > moment trying to hand construct a machine xml > file for it. I managed to create one which would > load but not start. Personally, rather than trying to hand-create XML, I've found it handy to use virt-manager's ability to create a new machine XML description around existing disk images. That is, use virt-manager to create a new VM, but instead of telling it to install the new machine from scratch, you instead tell it to attach to the pre-existing storage of the eventual guest, and the OS that is installed in that storage, and it generates pretty good defaults for the XML that will then boot that guest.