Category Archives: KVM

Creating JeOS virtual machines in Ubuntu

By karl | Published: February 24, 2009

The two tools I use for creating new vm’s with libvirt are virt-install and vmbuilder. I use virt-install when I will be installing an OS from installable media or using an existing disk image, and vmbuilder when I need to create JeOS based vm’s. After following the guides at wiki.ubuntu.com I ended up with two […]

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Windows XP p2v conversion with KVM

By karl | Published: February 8, 2009

After all of the Windows and Linux virtual machines I have setup I decided to try a Windows p2v (Physical to Virtual) conversion. After bracing for the worst it ended up being fairly straight forward. Steps as follows: Create a disk image of sufficient size Copy the Windows HDD to the disk image Boot the […]

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