Alex Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 15:02 -0400, David C. Mores wrote: >> I have a new HP PC with AMD quad CPU that came with Win7 installed. I >> installed Fedora 15 by first shrinking the hard drive ntfs partition in >> half and letting the Fedora installation set up the dual boot >> configuration in the GRUB boot menu. That all works fine. I can boot >> either O/S with no problems or side effects. >> >> Now to take this to the next level, I would like to setup a Win7 VM >> under Fedora that uses the Win7 installation that is already available >> in the Win 7 partition. Running the original Win 7 installation as a VM >> guest would be cool - efficient use of storage, the Win7 license and >> convenient - along with the existing option to reboot into Win 7. The >> Fedora Virtualization Guide documentation does not seem to cover this >> case where the O/S install exists before the VM is created. >> >> Can this be done? Have you done it successfully? What are the details? > This is not as easy as you'd like it to be. KVM presents the guest OS > with an entirely different chipset and IO devices from the physical > system. It's effectively the same as yanking out your hard drive and > installing it into an old pentium-pro class system and expecting Windows > to "just work". Some have done it, with much registery hacking, but > it's not easy and appears fragile. > > Alex > > I thought that to be one of Window's strengths - to "just work" in many hardware environments. Can you point me to any information or discussion resources where I could find discussion and more details on how others have done this?
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