On 06/07/2010 04:22 PM, Richard Walker wrote:
On 7 June 2010 14:59, Justin Clift<justin@salasaga.org> wrote:
On 06/07/2010 02:39 PM, Richard Walker wrote: <snip>
And at last . . . success!
Interesting. Hope you've taken a backup (image the hdd or something). :)
Uh, yes, well, maybe I will get around to that.
The next problem to face is activation. Having activated the native install, now I have three days to activate in the VM, and that doesn't work. Too many hardware "changes" I suppose . . .
Btw, the snapshot approach mentioned works. It's very easy. For a 500GB physical disk, with an OS installed on it: # qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o backing_file=/dev/sdb,backing_fmt=host_device /home/images/sdbimagesnap2.qcow2 500G That creates the snapshot. Then change a guest XML file to point to the snapshot. From: <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu'/> <-- no "type" here <source dev='/dev/sdb'/> <-- physical device here <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> </disk> To: <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/> <-- qcow2 type here <source dev='/home/images/sdbimagesnap2.qcow2'/> <--snapshot file <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> </disk> And the guest then uses the snapshot file, making writes only to that and leaving the physical device alone. It probably would have been a good way to experiment with your dual boot solution, without invalidating the license keys when physically booting Windows. Though, booting windows for real would likely silently corrupt the vm snapshots. :/ Good luck with your pursuit though. Hope you figure the license activation thing out. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- Salasaga - Open Source eLearning IDE http://www.salasaga.org