On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > Am 17.03.2014 20:30, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > >> I've been planning to try KVM as well, but am wondering how snapshots work >> with KVM. Not been able to find anything about that apart from >> disk-snapshots. No info if it's possible to take a copy of the memory as >> well. > > I run KVM in combo with LVM snapshots for backups. RAM snapshots? Not > sure ... > >>> I am right before installing Qemu and configuring the network bridge etc >>> ... the vmdks are already converted. Maybe it doesn't take that long. >> >> I don't think it should take very long. :) >> But, do check that the vmware tools get uninstalled from the guests and >> replaced by KVM equivalents. > > I have the VMs now, but both are XP guests and therefore crashing > because the weren't prepared with something like MergeIDE ... :-( > > *sigh* > > Does anyone know if there is a trick applying these drivers *without* > having a running VMware-Server? > > S
I suspect you don't have a WinPE bootable handy (UBCD in particular has the tools handy for this, Hiren's as well), but if you happened to magic one up, there's a quick script called "Fix IDE" (or "Fix HDC" which does similar) that reverts to the generic catch-all driver that usually works to get XP booting on new 'hardware' (whether real or otherwise). One thing I absolutely love about AHCI, while Windows 7 still binds to hardware specific drivers in the long run, only having to change 2 registry values (start values in iastorv and msahci) is far, far, easier than the mess XP had for hardware migrations ;) -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
