Re: Virtualize an existing installation of Windows

Dylan Semler wrote:
Using gparted, I've been able to sneak a Fedora partition on my work laptop
and dual boot F8 and XP. My next ambition is to be able to boot my XP
partition as a virtual machine in Linux using Xen. I've seen a how-to for
vmware[1], but I feel that Xen performs better (especially with the VT-x
extension) and I'd like to try that first. Does anyone know if this is
possible?

[1]http://mazimi.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/virtualization-of-an-existing-physical-partition-of-windows-within-linux/


I delayed responding, because although I've not done this yet, it's something I want to do.

I've now tried, and failed so far, using qemu-kvm.

I have (Intel) hardware virtualisation, so it should work.

I think that this should work:
qemu-kvm -boot c -snapshot -m 256 -smp 2 -std-vga /dev/sda
but I'm unwilling to actually do that, so I tried copying the first part of the disk to a file.

The process I followed and the manner of its failure are documented on the fedora-xen list.

I've not yet tried with xen; to do so requires I reboot.


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