First, I am a casual VM user. I have been using
Fedora Core 7 on my Dell laptop for a couple of
years with a single QEMU/KVM guest running Windoze XP.
I recently installed Fedora 12 on a new hard disk
and would like to use my old Windows VM image
on the new install.
Is there an easy way to do this?
I tried copying the image itself (WindozeXpDisk.raw)
to the new install and then (naively) looked for an
import on the Virtual Machine Manager GUI. The closest
that I found was the File->Restore saved machine.
I tried that on my WindozeXpDisk.raw image and it
failed as follows:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/manager.py",
line 461, in restore_saved_callback
newconn.restore(file_to_load)
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py",
line 649, in restore
self.vmm.restore(frm)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py",
line 1420, in restore
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainRestore()
failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: operation failed: image magic is incorrect
I *can* mount the image using kpartx et. al like this;
sudo kpartx -av /var/virt/WindozeXpDisk.raw
add map loop1p1 (253:2): 0 31101777 linear /dev/loop1 63
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/mapper/loop0p1 ./mnt
Any clues would be helpful.
thank you,
mike
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