2009/12/18 Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On 12/18/2009 04:13 PM, Kenni Lund wrote: > The '/tmp' was prefixed by qemu-img, the actual path is > 'WindowsXP.img.backup', so on your setup qemu-img would look for it in > /data/virtualization/. > >> If the image needs another image in /tmp/WindowsXP.img.backup I can >> see why it doesn't work, but I have _no_ idea why or how this file was >> created (?!??) - even if I was doing a test with base-images, I would >> do it directly in /data/virtualization/ and never in /tmp/ >> > > If it isn't there you can try to create it (qemu-img create > /data/virtualization/WindowsXP.img.backup 31457280000). If no data was > actually stored there, your image will be recovered. Thanks, this explains the whole thing - this is own mistake, I move all the backups into a subdirectory, I didn't know that I had based the image on a backup-image, bad design decision on my part. I'm sorry for the false alarm, thanks a lot for your help :) Best Regards Kenni Lund -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html