From: Ken Roberts <ken@9ci.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images?
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:36:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <531C0CE7-F07C-4BE6-A9D8-3E15987ED6D9@9ci.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CD4BBD.6060200@redhat.com>
On Jun 28, 2013, at 3:39 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> Il 28/06/2013 03:01, Ken Roberts ha scritto:
>>>> More details on "not bootable" would be nice. Do you get a blue screen? Seabios screen? You may need to prep the image before you convert it (google mergeide).
>>
>> Not sure if you support screenshots on the list, so I'm typing it below the post.
>>
>> The only configured device is the hard disk, it is INSTANTLY showing Boot failed: not a bootable disk.
>
> If you attach one of your Windows images to one of the Linux VMs and run
> the Linux VM on Parallels, what does "file -s" say if you pass it the
> Windows disk?
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 68.7 GB, 68719730688 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8354 cylinders, total 134218224 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00010001
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 63 134190944 67095441 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
# file -s /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR, Serial 0x10001; partition 1: ID=0x7, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 134190882 sectors, code offset 0xc0
# file -s /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 63, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80)
> And what does "file" say (on the host) about the same Windows image
> after conversion to raw?
$file -s popeye-c-raw.img
popeye-c-raw.img: data
> Also, can you do
>
> dd if=/path/to/windows-image.raw bs=512 count=1 | od -tx1
>
> (of course you have to replace /path/to/windows-image.raw) and include
> the output?
$dd if=popeye-c-raw.img bs=512 count=1 | od -tx1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000139388 s, 3.7 MB/s
0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
*
0001000
> Paolo
Thanks for the help.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-29 3:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-27 1:25 Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images? Ken Roberts
2013-06-27 19:33 ` Brian Jackson
2013-06-28 1:01 ` Ken Roberts
2013-06-28 8:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-29 3:36 ` Ken Roberts [this message]
2013-07-01 1:52 ` Fam Zheng
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