Which version of QEMU do you use?
You can run QEMU with the original (=vdi) image (and use -snapshot, then QEMU
won't write to the image), too.
A Windows blue screen or a start menu is a clear indication that the image
conversion was successful.
Therefore I assume that this is not a QEMU related problem but a Windows
problem.
Windows does not like when you move installation images from one machine to
another
one with different hardware. That's what you do when you move from VirtualBox
to QEMU.
** Changed in: qemu
Status: New => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/907994
Title:
converting VDI to IMG
Status in QEMU:
Incomplete
Bug description:
I'm so close to moving away from VrtualBox to using Qemu. However
I've run into some issues converting my existing virtual machine from
VirtualBox to Qemu. I'm running Qemu on Fedora 16. I took my
windows_xp.vdi and tried to convert it to qemu. The conversion goes
well without any errors but then when I import the converted file to
Qemu, it won't start. Here is the info on the file that I'm trying to
convert:
INFO
=====
$ qemu-img info windows_xp.vdi
image: windows_xp.vdi
file format: vdi
virtual size: 21G (22020096000 bytes)
disk size: 9.4G
cluster_size: 1048576
CONVERT COMMAND
==================
qemu-img convert windows_xp.vdi windows_xp.img
I created a new virtual machine and used the converted machine created (from
the above step).
When I try to start the newly created virtual machine, it keeps
failing. There is a blue screen of death that goes away too soon. and
I'm stuck with the windows start menu "safe mode, start normally "
etc.. but no matter what I do I can't seem to start the vm.
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks
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