>>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2007 at 2:45 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on Sun Apr 08 2007, "Gregory Haskins" <GHaskins- AT- novell.com> wrote: > >> I think it will turn out to be a pretty major problem, but probably >> not for the reason you might think. >> >> I know Xen has the ability to point a vbd interface at a physical >> partition, and I believe KVM does as well though I am not familiar >> with it. In theory you should be able to point the boot disk at your >> partition and have it come up as a guest. >> >> >> I think where you will run into problems is that windows won't really >> like have the system swapped out underneath it. KVM presents its own >> set of virtualized PC resources that are undoubtedly divergent in some >> way from your bare metal machine. > > That's what Windows hardware profiles are for, IIUC. It seems people > also have to take extra steps to make sure all the necessary drivers > for running the VM are installed. You might wanna read > http://www.motin.eu/www/mirror/physvmware/ > Interesting. Thanks for the link! Do post to the list/wiki if you get this to work. As I mentioned, I am pretty sure you should be able to do this with KVM (I am just not sure how off the top of my head). -Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
