2015-04-23 20:31 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:18:49 +0100, Mauro Santos wrote:
You should give qemu+kvm+spice a try, I have found that it seems to work acceptably even for usb redirection. Bonus points: no more trouble after updates and it should work over the network.
Thank you,
I agree. The reason that I didn't drop Virtualbox and tested other hosts is, that I don't know how to get my Windows XP SP3 guest from
$ ls -hlG Virt*/winOS/*.vdi -rw------- 1 rocketmouse 28G Apr 20 23:31 VirtualBox VMs/winOS/winOS.vdi
to another host. It seems to be hard or perhaps impossible to restore a Win XP from a backup. I at least can't remember that it ever worked for me.
If possible I want to restore Win XP from a backup, when migrating to another VM. Any hints how to backup Win XP and restore it on another virtual machine are welcome.
Sticking with qemu for the moment (but the same program can be used for many formats); you can use qemu-img convert to copy your XP vdi to e.g. qcow2 or RAW and use that for $other vm. The openstack project has nice documentation on this: http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ch_converting.html Note though, that plain qemu can be a bit cumbersome, nice frontends are available (I've used libvirt with some success in the past). mvg, Guus