Re: [Xen-users] Windows 2000 DomU

[Gregory Orange <gregory.orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm coming into this thread a bit late, and I'm not sure I'm right on 
topic, but hopefully this fits. From the following blog post, I gleaned 
some info about HALs and such:
http://ian.blenke.com/vmware/vmdk/xen/hvm/qemu/vmware_to_xen_hvm.html

In the end when I was doing that migration, I didn't use his methods 
(HALs turned out to be the same on both), due to a persistent BSOD. The 
first part of my solution:
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Prepare the VMWare VM:
In the running VMWare VM, uninstall VMWare Tools.
'Upgrade' the driver of the IDE Controller to "Standard Dual Channel PCI 
IDE Controller" (by manually selecting it) but don't reboot. Shut down 
the machine.
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After that, I just get the virtual machine contents over to the xen 
server (with dd in my case), configure it and power it on.
HTH,
Greg.

Antoine Benkemoun wrote:
> Thank you for your help.
>
> I am going to look at system state backup... never heard of this but it 
> sounds pretty good to me.
> I'll have a look at the boot.ini to see if that could solve it.
>
> Antoine
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Dustin Henning 
> <Dustin.Henning@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Dustin.Henning@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>            Another possibility would be installing Windows 2000 on Xen
>     instead of migrating it, then doing a backup on the real machine and
>     restore on the xen machine, my understanding is that the system
>     state portion of the backup will leave drivers alone so you can
>     restore to another system.  I have seen this suggested as a way to
>     migrate to other virtual scenarios, so I would think it would work
>     here as well.  You might want to do a web search on migration and/or
>     system state backups to find a good list of steps, and an install
>     followed by a backup and restore might then be as fast as a making
>     an image and then doing a repair (and perhaps cleaner to boot).
>            It is also possible that you have Windows 2000 on SATA or
>     SCSI with SCSI drivers, in which case you would need to change your
>     boot.ini similar to the following:
>     Before: scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
>     After: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
>     This change alone may not resolve your issue, though, because the
>     drivers still might not match up, but it would be worth checking
>     your boot.ini and if it has scsi, trying that before the more in
>     depth suggestions from myself and others.
>            Dustin
>
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>     To: James Dingwall; Antoine Benkemoun; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>     Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Windows 2000 DomU
>
>     I also had that problem. A workaround that fixed was repairing from the
>     Windows 2000
>     CD, then it went all just fine.
>
>
>
>     On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:34:29 +0200, James Dingwall
>     <james.dingwall@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:james.dingwall@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>      > I am doing tests to convert old rotting servers into a big shiny
>     new Xen
>      > platform. I have been able to migrate a Windows 2003 server without a
>      > scratch. I am trying to do the same thing with Windows 2000
>     Server but
>      > things aren't so great...
>      >
>      > I made an image from the disk that worked in a machine. Then I
>     boot on
>      > this image using Xen. Windows 2000 starts to boot up then give me
>     a BSOD
>      > stating UNACESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.
>      >
>      > Has anybody encountered this error before ?
>      >
>      > Thank you in advance for your help,
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > Were you using an IDE disk on the original machine?  There is a
>     problem
>      > moving 2000/XP system disks between computers when the IDE
>     devices are
>      > different.  You can fix this by importing some additional
>     registry keys
>      > before moving the drive or taking the image:
>      >
>      > Windows 2000: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822052/en-us
>      > Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082
>      >
>      > Alternatively I don't know if you can change the IDE device that Xen
>      > will emulate to match the source hardware.
>      >
>      > James
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