On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:07:31AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/05/2012 08:11 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > > Rich, > > > > > > On 2012-01-05 21:05, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:27:29AM +0200, Dor Laor wrote: > >>> On 01/03/2012 06:42 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > >>> >On 01/02/2012 03:38 AM, Emanuel Rietveld wrote: > >>> >>When you give qemu-kvm a partition to use as disk for a guest, it does > >>> >>exactly that. It uses the partition as a disk for the guest. So, the > >>> >>guest sees a *disk* while in the physical situation it's a > >>> *partition*. > >>> >>You may be able to do what you want by attaching a whole disk to the > >>> >>guest, instead of just the partition. > > > > > > Not possible in my situation - I want to be able to dual boot OR run > > Windows 7 as a guest using the same partition install. > > Won't work, in general, because your virtual machine will present > different hardware to Windows than the native dual boot, and Windows is > super-finicky about being booted on the same hardware every time.
Win7 is (relativelly) smart. It worked perfectly here a while ago using VirtualBox - and I have fancy hardware (it's a gaming machine). But you have to reactivate your windows everytime you switch, which is a PITA. > > > > > > So if I understand this correctly - it IS possible to (easily) do what I > > want with Xen but NOT kvm? > > No. It's not possible to do what you want with either solution (at > least, not possible while still being above the law with Microsoft > product activation). I fail to see why it's ilegal (you are alowed to switch your machine keeping your win7 installation, you just can't have multiple installations). IANAL, though. Cheers, - Ademar -- Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. Red Hat ^[:wq! _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
