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From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone familiar with virt-manager?
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:31:44
Message-Id: 20150211183133.GD2173@vidovic.ultras.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone familiar with virt-manager? by walt
1 On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 08:14:52AM -0800, walt wrote:
2 > On 02/11/2015 03:38 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
3 > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 04:56:13PM -0800, walt wrote:
4
5 > > Did you check the devices?
6 >
7 > I haven't yet figured out how to display the devices with virsh. I'm still
8 > experimenting :)
9
10 virsh edit <name>
11
12 > > How did you imported the winXP image into virt-manager?
13 >
14 > Clicked on File menu and chose "New Virtual Machine" which offers an import option.
15
16 You might want to try by avoiding this option. Copy the disk image and
17 just create a new VM. While asking for a disk, provide the copy of the
18 image.
19
20 > > I wonder if you
21 > > have a recent declared ABI. Here it is pc-1.1, hvm:
22 > >
23 > > <os>
24 > > <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-1.1'>hvm</type>
25 > > <...>
26 > > </os>
27 >
28 > Same here, except machine='pc-i440fx-2.3' I have no idea where that value comes from.
29
30 It comes from the import but I wonder if default value hurts the guest.
31 You have to check what is pc-i440fx-2.3 by yourself or ask the libvirt
32 mailing list.
33
34 Here is the background about ABI:
35 https://www.berrange.com/posts/2010/02/15/stable-guest-machine-abi-pci-addressing-and-disk-controllers-in-libvirt/
36
37 --
38 Nicolas Sebrecht