You have a native hardware install and you want to convert it to virtual
image?
I haven''t tried that with Windows 7. If like WinXP, then I assume the
following are required:
1. Enable intelide driver and associated pieces in registry. I don''t
recall the specifics but I do remember finding these instructions for
Vista and WinXP by using Google. I think this is the driver for the
virtual hardware exposed by HVM.
2. You can shrink a NTFS volume with ntfsresize. Standard precautions
in the form of a backup apply. You may need to use jkdefrag when
Windows is running to make free space at the end of the volume.
Following the ntfsresize you need to adjust the partition. There are
instructions out there if you are unfamiliar with the process.
On 2011-12-20 05:16, xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com
wrote:> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:16:08 +0100
> From: Artur Fejklowicz<admin@artur.krakow.pl>
>
> I would like to know how to prepare windows 7 image so I could run it
> under Xen.
> Windows 7 is on 250GB /dev/sda1 seen by my hypervisor and it occupies 70GB.
> Is there a method to make image only this 70GB plus for example 10GB
> additional free space?