RHEV - virtualization of win xp machine

[esggrupos at gmail.com]

Hi Joseph,

No I haven`t, which is the command to make it with dd?

dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/image.iso

is this right? (being /dev/hda the cdrom) what about bs and count  
parameters?

Thanks

ESG



El , joseph baudean <jdbaudean at gmail.com> escribió:
> Have you tried using dd to make an iso from your winxp cd?



> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:35 AM, esggrupos at gmail.com> wrote:



> > Hi all,

> >

> > I´m still testing RHEV as virtualization solution, and I have a problem

> > creating win xp virtual machines.

> >

> > With RHEL there is not problem, I have used a boot.iso to launch the

> > installation and with a Web server with the source tree I do the

> > installation.

> > The problem is with Win. (of course ;-)) I have seen in the demos that I

> > must use a iso file with the installation but I haven´t such iso file. I

> > only have an win xp installation CD

> >

> > I have tried to make a iso file with the mkisofs command but I can get  
> this

> > file bootable.

> >

> > so my two questions are:

> >

> > Can´t I use the boot CD directly to create a win image machine (with  
> vmware

> > is as easy as to put the CD in the drive)?

> > how can I make a boot iso from the CD to use it to create a virtual  
> machine

> >

> > Thanks

> >

> > ESG

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