[virt-tools-list] what does virt-v2v check for in a multiboot os?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Jan 31 18:10:01 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:01:03PM -0500, Kenneth Armstrong wrote:
> Ok, I had the same problem with a completely separate VM.  This one
> was originally built on the ESX host, and the Recovery Console was
> never installed on it.  There are two separate vmdk files representing
> two separate hard disks.  I get the same problem with virt-v2v
> thinking this is a multi-OS vm:

Thanks, this is certainly a bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674130

I'm interested in how such Windows guests are created.  I've never
seen a Windows guest with two disks before.  Is this common?  Did the
sysadmin move directories like \windows and "\program files" between
the disks manually, or is there some tool that does this?

Rich.

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