Thanks for the confirmation and just for the benefit of anybody else who subsequently searches for <keywords> KVM QEMU convert physical drive virtual machine image </keywords>, yes it works :) On 11/9/10, Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 09.11.2010 01:48, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> I'm trying to convert a physical Windows XP machine into a KVM guest. >> All the guides so far mentions using dd to create a flat image file, >> then using qemu-img to convert that to qcow2. Since I've been making >> mistake here and there, retrying the process several times (initially >> converting each logical partition into an image), the question struck >> me: is there any reason why I cannot do something like this >> qemu-img convert -f /dev/sdc -O qcow2 /images/winxp.qcow instead of >> having to do it in two passes which literally take hours each. > > This is exactly the way to do it - converting the physical disk directly > to a qcow (or whatever format) file using qemu-img. I've no idea why > all the guide writers are so confused. > > The only problem with your exact version is that you've extra -f > argument - it expects a parameter, the input image type, which is > raw, so either use -f raw, or remove -f. > > /mjt > -- 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
