[Bug 706706] Re: Can't use Norton Ghost under Ubuntu KVM

[Tong Sun]

Thanks a lot for your replies and help, Serge.

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Serge Hallyn
<706706 at bugs.launchpad.net>wrote:

> Can you try to reproduce with the latest daily-upstream package?
>

Done:

$ apt-cache policy qemu-common qemu-kvm
qemu-kvm:
  Installed: 1.0+201101212012
  Candidate: 1.0+201101212012
  Version table:
 *** 1.0+201101212012 0
        500
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-server-edgers/server-edgers-qemu-kvm/ubuntu/maverick/main
amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main amd64
Packages
     0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64
Packages
qemu-common:
  Installed: 1.0+201101212012
  Candidate: 1.0+201101212012
  Version table:
 *** 1.0+201101212012 0
        500
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-server-edgers/server-edgers-qemu-kvm/ubuntu/maverick/main
amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main amd64
Packages
     0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64
Packages

but the proble remains. Same symptom.

Yes, I was hoping to avoid downloading an iso I'd never heard of.
>

Yep, me neither. But it's OK for this case, 'cause we are only using it in a
guest on the virtual machine.


> It will be helpful if you can reproduce this bug with a more common iso.
>

Problem is, the bug is especially regards Norton Ghost, the most well-known,
and widely-used disk cloning tools for windows. Check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Ghost

My question about 32-bit and 64-bit maverick was in a guest, not on the
> host.


Ok, now I know what you meant.

Actually, we are not even there yet.

Please do the following.

- create a brand new kvm disk image,

kvm-img create -f qcow hda 6G

- without doing anything else, try to boot Norton Ghost from within kvm:

kvm -hda hda -cdrom /path/to/Hiren.BootCD.8.6.iso -boot d

and see if you can boot into Norton Ghost yourself.

Thanks


** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

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  Can't use Norton Ghost under Ubuntu KVM