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Linux Kernel Virtual Machines

Create a Windows 7 VM

  1. Create the VM using Virt-Manager
    • Choose Customize configuration before install
  2. Remove Disk 1
  3. Add Hardware
    1. VirtIO Drivers ISO
      • Storage → Select managed or other existing → Browse → Browse Local → virtio-win-0.1-59.iso
      • Device type → IDE CDROM
    2. Disk 1
      • Storage → Create disk image (at least 30GB)
      • Allocate entire disk now → Deselect
      • Device type → VirtIO disk
      • Storage format → qcow2
  4. Modify the NIC
    • Device Model → VirtIO
  5. Start the Windows installation
    • Load Driver → Select all three VirtIO drivers
      • NIC
      • SCSI
      • Balloon

Virtual to Physical

Virtualbox to KVM Migration

http://arjunstechblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-migrate-from-virtualbox-to-kvm.html

VBoxManage clonehd --format RAW mydiskname.vdi mydiskname.img
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