[Novalug] virsh cheat sheet?

William Morse wmorse@americancouncils.org
Wed Aug 21 15:20:11 EDT 2013


I've had problems with the boot loader, but I figured I that my image just didn't have a "good" MBR.

But this leads me to a question: I have a machine configured for Dual Boot with win7 on  some partition. Is there a recipe to allow me to create an image of that system that is bootable from virsh?

I used dd to make a raw image file from the partition, and was able to add this image as a "drive" to another VM win7 system. But I couldn't figure out how to "prepend" an MBR to the image. 

Anyone done something like this?

My eventual goal is to store the image on some external hard drive, because  I run it  only a couple times a year and free up the disk space on my system.

William Morse  

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On 08/18/2013 12:31 AM, Jason P. Thomas wrote:
> I've dd'ed vm disks to lvm on xen with little trouble using both
> ext3 and ext4.  I'd probably make an lvm the same size as the
> existing partition, then resize it after you insure it works if
> necessary.

Did you encounter any problems with the boot loader freaking out
because it couldn't find /boot or /root anymore?  I ran into that a
couple of times and gave up on the migration effort.

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