On 09/22/2011 08:03 AM, David C. Mores wrote: > 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.
Exactly the opposite, if you ask me. You change a piece of hardware and Windows thinks someone is running a bootleg version and you have to re-register, etc. Bill > Can you point me to any > information or discussion resources where I could find discussion and > more details on how others have done this? > > Thanks, > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > virt mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
