On 11/25/2009 11:36 AM, Michael N. Moran wrote:
> 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
>
Restore isn't what you want here, and though the above error sounds
scary it is actually correct. Restore starts a VM that was previously
'saved', which is kind of like suspend to ram on a physical machine.
You should be able to use virt-install --import to get what you want,
something like
virt-install --name foo --ram 1024 --os-variant winxp --import --disk
path=/path/to/your/disk/image ...
- Cole
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