On Thursday 07 February 2008 05:43:29 pm BotNeb wrote:> Is it possible to install a Windows 2003 vm onto a native NTFS formatted
> drive? Time and performance is really important to me. I want to skip the
> whole virtual disk in a file thing. Is there a way to do this?
> The computer has the Intel vt extensions.
Certainly, if you can dedicate a disk partition to your guest (or the whole
disk). Actually, Windows will want to overwrite your master boot record, so
if there are any other os''s on this disk that want to create a boot
menu,
like linux, you will have to recreate that boot menu after the Windows
install (update-grub, Yast, etc.)
If you are using virt-manager, tell it the physical location of the
partition/whole disk, such as /dev/sda. It will create an hvm guest with the
physical disk, /dev/sda, mapped to a virtual disk /dev/hda in the config
file. When the Windows installer starts, tell it what partition on the disk
you want to use.
The disk= parameter in the guest''s config file should look similar to
this:
disk= [ ''/dev/sda,hda,w'',
''path-to-windows-iso,hdc:cdrom,r'' ]
Depending on your distro, the hda device may look like ioemu:hda, and
virt-install will automatically put in a "boot=''d''"
line to get the installer
dvd (cds are a pain) or .iso file to ''boot''.
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