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How to build a Windows QEMU KVM qcow2 image
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Two points of the manual I didn't quite get: volid value and virsh commands in windows section #5

Open Coucou-42 opened 1 year ago

Coucou-42 commented 1 year ago

Hi! Thank you for your project. I try to understand two things:

  1. why -volid is not cidata (as nocloud man reads)
  2. what is going on here? Should I start a Linux machine with KVM over windows Hyper-V? May be this is the reason of enabling nested virtualisation? What windows.iso? Is it unaltered installation media of Windows?
Coucou-42 commented 1 year ago

I figured out that there are two of configuration drive formats: nocloud (disk label cidata) and config drive (disk label config-2) First uses line-by-line config format, the second - json