On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 1:58 PM Franta Hanzlik via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > I want to virtualize any old i686 Windows XP 32-bit physical PC on F37. [...issues trying to use virt-p2v...] > Has anyone done this? What optimal way would you recommend?
I've never used virt-p2v - do you really need the --arch option? I would expect your 32-bit Windows to run just fine in a 64-bit VM. Another possibility would be to create a 64-bit VM, and then move the storage to a 32-bit VM (assuming you can't just change the VM architecture). If you are willing to do the p2v steps by hand (it isn't hard): Assuming your Fedora and Windows systems are separate computers (i.e. not dual-booting), you have an external USB disk that has enough free space to hold the data from the Windows XP system, and a way to boot a clonezilla Live CD or USB on the Windows XP system: - boot clonezilla on the Windows system and let it walk you through creating an image of the Windows disk -- do not connect the USB drive until clonezilla tells you to do so - move the USB disk to the Fedora system - create the VM but skip the auto-install steps - boot clonezilla in the VM and let it walk you through restoring the disk image -- you may need to tell virtual-machine-manager to pass the USB disk through to the VM If you insist on using virt-p2v you might have to see if there is a Live CD for an older version of Fedora that still has it (assuming it ever did). _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
