On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:40:31PM +1300, Qiubo Su (David Su) wrote: > dear virt-manager team, > > i run "VBoxManage clonehd --format RAW image.vdi image.img" to convert the > virtualbox .vdi vm instance to raw format, and with virt-manager to create > new vm with the raw format, it works fine, i.e. can start the new vm > instance successfully and the networking access is the same as before. > > but after run "qemu-img convert -f raw image.img -O qcow2 image.qcow" to > convert the raw format to qcow2 format, and with virt-manager to create new > vm with the qcow2 format, it doesn't work, i.e. get "no bootable device" > error when start the new vm with qcow2 format, no need to say the > networking access. I'm guessing this is because libvirt still thinks the format of the disk is raw instead of qcow2. What is the output of: virsh dumpxml <name-of-the-guest> Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw
