Michael Hunter wrote: >> If you have an already installed >> instance of Windows that was installed on the metal and not under the >> hypervisor on a partition on your machine and want to run that under the >> hypervisor, then that is almost certainly not going to work due to the >> differences in the actual hardware that windows was configured and >> installed on and the Virtual Machine presented by the hypervisor. > > This is what I am interested in. I've pulled hard drives from machines > and moved them between different machines and booted windows so I don't > understand the issue in general.
In the most general sense, it works - the VM will boot off of a pre-installed drive just fine. Copy the drive into a file, or use a phy:/dev/dsk/... disk specifier for physical direct access. The problem is that Windows will detect that the hardware has changed (different type of NIC, CPU, disk drive manufacturer, BIOS, etc), and possibly refuse to run, or at least demand that you re-activate it. Certainly worth a shot. ----------------------------------------------------- Russ Blaine | Solaris Kernel | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
