Re: [Xen-users] Converting VMWare Machine with SCSI disks

["Andrew Lyon" <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:58 PM, James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've used this document as a guide for converting systems to xen domUs.
> http://ian.blenke.com/vmware/vmdk/xen/hvm/qemu/vmware_to_xen_hvm.html
>
> If the VMWare machine has IDE drives this works well. If the VMWare
> machine has SCSI drives, I don't think I've gotten any of them to work.
> I currently have two Win2k servers and now a win2k3 server that I've
> tried converting.

Are you sure you followed  Microsoft kb314082 correctly? You only
actually need to add the intel section to the registry.

Perhaps its a HAL issue? My target Xen vm has two cpus so I made sure
that the Computer driver was set to ACPI Multiprocessor.

I have done this process several times to p2v windows 2003 servers
using a rather convoluted method of using vmware converter to import
the physical install to a vmware vm, booting it once in vmware,
following  Microsoft kb314082, and then converting the vmdk to Xen
disk, once booted in Xen I have installed the GPLPV drivers.

I have had no success getting the GPLPV drivers to work in Windows
2008, and bizzarely most of the messages I have sent to the list about
the problem have disappeared, I never get a posting receipt message
and they are no in the list archives, I wonder if this message will
get through as I mention the subject again... very strange.

Andy

>
> All three of them get to a certain point in the boot process, then
> processor util goes to 100% and they stop. On win2k there's about 4 or 5
> little bars left to finish. On win2k3 it's hard to tell because the bar
> goes across the screen.
>
> Anybody had luck with this? I'm contemplating downloading VMWare ESX now
> that it's free for these trouble systems, but I'd rather have them on
> xen.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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