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Unfortunately VENOM was not so easy because some OSes (ehm Windows XP but also 2003...) only support driver floppies as opposed to driver CD-ROMs. But we disab
by bonzini 10y ago
Unfortunately VENOM was not so easy because some OSes (ehm Windows XP but also 2003...) only support driver floppies as opposed to driver CD-ROMs.
But we disable a bunch of old SCSI adapters, NICs, most audio cards, the whole Bluetooth emulation subsystem. All the cross-architecture emulation is also compiled out (x86-on-x86 emulation is still left in, until nested virtualization matures---which the Google folks are helping us with too!---but we only support it for libguestfs appliances).
Furthermore, in RHEL most image formats are forbidden or only supported read-only in the emulator (you can still use qemu-img to convert to and from them). Read-only support can be useful because of virt-v2v, an appliance that reads from VMware or Hyper-V images and tweaks them to run as KVM guests.