2015-04-23 20:31 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:18:49 +0100, Mauro Santos wrote: >>You should give qemu+kvm+spice a try, I have found that it seems to >>work acceptably even for usb redirection. Bonus points: no more >>trouble after updates and it should work over the network. > > Thank you, > > I agree. The reason that I didn't drop Virtualbox and tested other > hosts is, that I don't know how to get my Windows XP SP3 guest from > > $ ls -hlG Virt*/winOS/*.vdi > -rw------- 1 rocketmouse 28G Apr 20 23:31 VirtualBox VMs/winOS/winOS.vdi > > to another host. It seems to be hard or perhaps impossible to restore a > Win XP from a backup. I at least can't remember that it ever worked for > me. > > If possible I want to restore Win XP from a backup, when migrating to > another VM. Any hints how to backup Win XP and restore it on another > virtual machine are welcome. Sticking with qemu for the moment (but the same program can be used for many formats); you can use qemu-img convert to copy your XP vdi to e.g. qcow2 or RAW and use that for $other vm. The openstack project has nice documentation on this: http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ch_converting.html Note though, that plain qemu can be a bit cumbersome, nice frontends are available (I've used libvirt with some success in the past). mvg, Guus
