Hi Thomas,
Thanks for your advice.
Quoting Thomas Beinicke <thomas.beinicke@xxxxxxxxxx>:
- snip -
When you "dd" off a device it will always be raw format, kvm will
recognize it
as raw even though the extension is qcow2. If you really want a qcow
container
you have to convert it with "qemu-img".
I made following test before;
$ sudo qemu-img convert VM/VMWIN/vm07_vista.qcow2 -O raw /dev/sdb
qemu-img: Error while formatting '/dev/sdb'
I don't understand why it needs to format the hard drive? I need to
keep this hard drive including its OS without touched. Please help.
TIA
Will /etc/libvirt/qemu/vm07_vista.xml be created automatically running
above command?
For hard drives you should use something like this:
-drive file=hda.qcow2,boot=on
Sorry I don't follow. Please explain in more detail.
Other advice noted with thanks.
B.R.
Stephen L
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