-- Ken Roberts k...@9ci.com ken.roberts163 @ skype 605-222-5758 @ cell
On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Brian Jackson <i...@theiggy.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:25:54 PM CDT, Ken Roberts wrote: >> Sorry for the user query but I'm not finding expertise on the Linux mailing >> lists I belong to. The web site says one-off user questions are OK. >> >> I have a few VM images on Parallels 8 for Mac. I want them to be on >> KVM/Linux. >> >> Some of the images are Linux, but the critical ones are a few types of >> Windows. I don't want to trash my licenses. >> >> I noticed that kvm-img has a parallels format option, and it seems to work >> while the conversion is going on. I've tried kvm-img to convert to qcow2 >> and to raw, both cases the image converts but the disk is not bootable. The >> only file the kvm-img doesn't immediately fail on is the one that contains >> the data. > > > More details on "not bootable" would be nice. Do you get a blue screen? > Seabios screen? You may need to prep the image before you convert it (google > mergeide). Not sure if you support screenshots on the list, so I'm typing it below the post. The only configured device is the hard disk, it is INSTANTLY showing Boot failed: not a bootable disk. Thanks. Black screen from virt-manager: ---- Booting from Hard Disk… Boot failed: not a bootable disk Booting from ROM… iPXE (PCI 00:03.0) starting execution…ok iPXE initialising devices…ok iPXE 1.0.0+ -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware -- http://ipxe.org Features: HTTP HTTPS iSCSI DNS TFTP AoE bzImage ELF MBOOT PXE PXEXT Menu net0: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx using rtl8139 on PCI00:03.0 (open) [Link:up, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0] DHCP (net0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx)….. ok net0: 192.168.1.140/255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.1 Next server: 192.168.1.1 Nothing to boot: No such file or directory (http://ipxe.org/2d03e13b) No more network devices Booting from Floppy… Boot failed: could not read the boot disk No bootable device. ---- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
