RE: [Xen-users] run a VM from a previous physical disk install ?

["David Morris" <dmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I would try showing the windows guest the whole physical drive
as I think windows needs to see the partition table.  Just be careful
to not modify the partition table or non-windows partitions from
windows.

    disk = [ "phy:/dev/sda,hda,w" ]

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Armstrong [mailto:jarmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 3:58 PM
To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-users] run a VM from a previous physical disk install ?

Hi All,

I have a machine that was installed with WinXP, I re-sized the disk so
WinXP has a very small disk and installed linux on the newly freed up
disk partition.  If I boot from the partition (via grub) the old windows
image works just fine, but as I only need to access it on occasion I'd
rather not have to re-boot my machine to get to it.  So - is there a way
I can use the already installed version of WinXP as an installed VM
image and run it ?
 
I tried with the following config file (at the end of this mail) but I
got these errors:

        Booting from Hard Disk...
        Boot from Hard Disk failed: could not read the boot disk
        FATAL: No bootable device

Is it just that the virtual devices in the VM are not compatible with
the real devices that the image expects ?

Or do I have to go and get something like PlateSpin powerconvert ?  Any
open-source VtoP tools ?

Thanks.

Joe

Just in case, here is my VM config file:

name = "WinXP"
uuid = "694f0193-b8ec-d1ff-3d97-18731b540008"
maxmem = 384
memory = 384
vcpus = 1
builder = "hvm"
kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
boot = "c"
pae = 0
acpi = 0
apic = 0
localtime = 0
on_poweroff = "destroy"
on_reboot = "restart"
on_crash = "restart"
device_model = "/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm"
sdl = 0
vnc = 1
vncunused = 0
vncdisplay = "2"
disk = [ "/dev/sda2,hda,w" ]
vif = [  ]
serial = "pty"


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