Hi I am playing with qemu. I created a debian vm. I did not use the qcow format, instead just big and raw.
qemu-img debian.img 10G then i installed debian as usual qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda debian.img Now it works fine. I made some ovl files and they work too Now I tried to copy this debian.img to another machine. I did not want to copy the whole big file so I did tar -csjf debian.tar.bz2 debian.img then i copied it to another machine. i checked the md5sum and i ran bunzip2 debian.tar.bz2 and tar xvf debian.tar Now if I copy this file to another directory and run bunzip2 debian.tar.bz2 tar xvf debian.tar Then if I run qemu -hda debian.img -boot c then it runs fine. However if I move it to another debian machine and if I check the md5sum (and they agree!) then when I try to run the debian machine on the new machine I get an error ata0 master: QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 Hard-Disk ( 0 MBytes) Booting from Hard Disk... Boot from Hard Disk failed: not a bootable disk FATAL: No bootable device :(. I have tried it on multiple different machines. any ideas? Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
