> Well, you still have to consider that:) Why this works without you > doing any extra legwork is because for you to run windows on Xen, > unless your using the pv drivers, your Xen config exports an IDE disc > into the vm. Unless you explicitly do *not* load an ide driver during > install of the windows guest, it has this driver in the Critical Devices > Database. It will just boot. You may have to make changes to the boot.ini > file depending on the version of windows and format of the original vm > but I doubt you need that. > Thanks - I was wondering what was going on under the lid > > You can also convert the images as well (qemu-img convert -f vmdk... I thnk). > If this image is running under ESX, then you should export the disc out with > vmkfstools, http://www.vmts.net/vmkfstools.htm Thats helpful too (qemu-img docs at http://bellard.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC19) Thanks Stephen