On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 07:57:39PM +0100, Franta Hanzlik via users wrote: > Hi, > > I want to virtualize any old i686 Windows XP 32-bit physical PC on F37. > Result from building virt-p2v boot disk: > > # virt-p2v-make-disk -o /dev/sde --arch i686 > virt-p2v-make-disk: cannot find /usr/lib64/virt-p2v/virt-p2v.i686.xz > You used the '--arch' option, so it’s likely that you will need to build > a virt-p2v.i686 binary yourself. > See p2v-building(1) section BUILDING i686 32 BIT VIRT-P2V for help. > > It seems as virt-p2v.i686.xz blob isn't in Fedora (nor 'p2v-building' > man page, but it can be found easily). > > What now? I see two possibilities: > 1) it is somewhere on Fedora, but not in core repos > 2) I have to build it myself - but have no idea about optimal way. > 'p2v-building' man page recommends 32-bit chroot (without details), > or (on Fedora) use 'mock' - but it seems it is not there anymore. > > Has anyone done this? What optimal way would you recommend?
You don't need a 32 bit virt-p2v to virtualize a 32 bit system, just use normal 64 bit virt-p2v. Having said that, virt-v2v won't give you any real value for Windows XP. We don't have virtio drivers for it. Even after using p2v/v2v on it, it will still use very slow IDE emulated devices. This is not to say that virt-p2v won't work, it should do, but you might as well simply copy the physical disk of the PC, eg. by pulling it out and using a SATA-USB adapter. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ 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
