On 11/30/2017 03:43 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/30/2017 03:28 PM, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Need help. >> >> I lost the host Fedora25 when the Virtual machine(win7) was off. >> I installed Fedora 25 on a new 1TB disk. Now I can mount the old root >> and home on the new Fedora25. How to recover the win7 guest machine? > > Assuming you were using qemu under libvirt on F25 and still have the F25 > disk, you can mount that disk and look in its "/etc/libvirt/qemu" > directory. The configuration for the guest machine will be in one of > those xml files. For my old Win7 platform, it's in the > "/etc/libvirt/qemu/Win7.xml" file. > > Copy that to the new F25's spot and also examine the xml file for the > name of the Win7 virtual disk. In my case: > > <devices> > <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator> > <disk type='file' device='disk'> > <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> > <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/Win7.img'/> > <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> > <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> > </disk> > ... > > So the virtual drive is the "/var/lib/libvirt/images/Win7.img" file > and it's in "raw" format (as opposed to "qcow2" or some other format). > Copy that file from the F25 disk to the same spot on the new F25 disk > and you should be good to go. I should have also asked...why are you sticking to F25? It goes end-of- life in about 6 months. You should have upgraded to at least F26. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Blech! ACKth! Ooop! -- Bill the Cat (Outland) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
