Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 01:39:12PM -0400, David C. Mores wrote: >> Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>> In addition to this, Windows won't work on an unpartitioned disk. >>> There's a very hacky way to do it: >>> >>> https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/technique-for-synthesizing-a-partition-table-on-a-naked-filesystem/ >> So does this mean that the ntfs partition on the physical disk looks >> like a unpartitioned disk as presented by KVM to the guest OS? >> How would one hook up the Windows partition to the VM? > Yes; and using the hacky technique described above. This is really a > shortcoming of Windows. Linux has no problem booting from a naked > filesystem. After I used the virt-manager GUI to create a VM, I find /var/lib/libvirt/images which I assume is where the vm image is installed, but now empty. So to connect this to the physical partition, would I put a link in here (e.g. ln -s /dev/sda1 /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.img) or some such?
Also, it is not clear to me how the above partition table hack fits into this picture. Sorry - this is just not intuitively obvious to me at this point. Dave My physical partition table: [root@playboy ~]# parted GNU Parted 2.3 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: ATA ST3750528AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 750GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot 2 106MB 370GB 370GB primary ntfs 4 370GB 738GB 368GB extended 5 370GB 371GB 524MB logical ext4 6 371GB 738GB 367GB logical lvm 3 738GB 750GB 12.3GB primary ntfs (parted) q > >> Are you saying that this is what I should expect to encounter based >> on your experiences with running the physical install as a VM? > Yes, my experiences doing P2V. > >> Is KVM technology evolution headed toward making the KVM represent >> the actual physical hardware (chipset, IO devices, etc.)? > No, in fact the other direction. Emulating real hardware is tedious, > and more importantly emulated devices are much slower than > paravirtualized devices. > > Rich. > _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
