Virtualization Problems

[Brian Butler]

Greg,

Thanks very much.  That sure points me in a better direction than I had
found on my own.

Thanks again.
 
Regards,
 
Brian Butler
bbutler at arc-products.com
 


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[mailto:kplug-list-bounces at kernel-panic.org] On Behalf Of Gregory K.
Ruiz-Ade
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:40 PM
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Subject: Re: Virtualization Problems



On Mar 23, 2010, at 8:24 PM, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:

> Run "kvm-ok" and "dmesg | grep kvm" to see what you find.  You should 
> see something like:

Just realized that kvm-ok is likely an Ubuntu-ism... Sorry about that.
You'll definitely see whether KVM is enabled or not by looking at the
kernel's output via dmesg.

I just recently converted a VMware Windows XP guest (itself p2v'd from a
desktop a couple years ago) for use in KVM on my Ubuntu 9.10 system, and had
to go through a bunch of this the hard way, including finding the downloads
for the Windows virtio network and storage drivers and how to install them.
I found these links useful:

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Boot_from_virtio_block_device
http://tinyurl.com/yhmerde (http://www.redhat.com/docs/... some horrible
URL)

I haven't yet tried to install Windows XP from scratch into a KVM guest.

Gregory

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