[Qemu-devel] [Bug 907994] Re: converting VDI to IMG

[Stefan Weil]

Which version of QEMU do you use?
You can run QEMU with the original (=vdi) image (and use -snapshot, then QEMU 
won't write to the image), too.

A Windows blue screen or a start menu is a clear indication that the image 
conversion was successful.
Therefore I assume that this is not a QEMU related problem but a Windows 
problem.

Windows does not like when you move installation images from one machine to 
another
one with different hardware. That's what you do when you move from VirtualBox 
to QEMU.


** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  converting VDI to IMG

Status in QEMU:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I'm so close to moving away from VrtualBox to using Qemu.  However
  I've run into some issues converting my  existing virtual machine from
  VirtualBox to Qemu. I'm running Qemu on Fedora 16. I took my
  windows_xp.vdi and tried to convert it to qemu. The conversion goes
  well without any errors but then when I import the converted file to
  Qemu, it won't start. Here is the info on the file that I'm trying to
  convert:

  
  INFO
  =====
  $ qemu-img info windows_xp.vdi 
  image: windows_xp.vdi
  file format: vdi
  virtual size: 21G (22020096000 bytes)
  disk size: 9.4G
  cluster_size: 1048576

  
  CONVERT COMMAND
  ==================
  qemu-img convert windows_xp.vdi  windows_xp.img

  
  I created a new virtual machine  and used the converted machine created (from 
the above step).

  When I try to start the newly created virtual machine, it keeps
  failing. There is a blue screen of death that goes away too soon. and
  I'm stuck with the windows start menu "safe mode,  start normally "
  etc.. but no matter what I do I can't seem to start the vm.

  Any help much appreciated.

  Thanks

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