HVM from previous filesystem in the form of .img

[lus...@gmail.com]

I have dumped my previous Linux daily driver's filesystem on an .img file.
I'm trying to create an HVM with the option --root-copy-from.
The HVM fails to boot at all cases. Either I get the grimmy 4 liner, or it's running background jobs and then notes that the booting failed or I get a kernel panic.

The image file contains my root previous working tree and the boot partition included in it under /boot.

Any ideas?

[awokd]

lus...@gmail.com wrote on 3/22/19 10:54 AM:

The default HVM disk size is likely smaller than your .img file. Create
the HVM first, size the disk and RAM (2GB+ at first) appropriately, then
cp name.img /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-vm--[VMNAME]--root.