Re: [Xen-users] Re: Drivers for Win2k3 domU

[Aleksandar Ivanisevic <aleksandar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, it worked. I was actually misled with the URL below and thought 
I need to turn acp/apic off and replace the HAL, but I actually did not. 
virt-manager created the VM with acpi/apic/pae=1 and it just worked ;)
Thanks again.

James Pifer wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 14:58 +0200, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote:
> > James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > I have a windows 2003 server that I converted from a vmware image to a
> > > domU. It works, but I have one PCI Device that is not being found. 
> > How did you do it? I've tried following this URL:
> >
> > http://ian.blenke.com/vmware/vmdk/xen/hvm/qemu/vmware_to_xen_hvm.html
> >
> > but so far no go, nothing on the console and VM reboots after 10
> > seconds.
> My basics steps are:
> 1) Import registy entries as in this doc: 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082/
>
> 2) vmware-vdiskmanager -r windows2003.vmdk -t 0 windows2003-flattened.vmdk
>
> 3) qemu-img convert windows-2003-flattened.vmdk windows2003.img
>
> 4) 2 and 3 I used a windows machine so then I ftp the img file to my xen server.
>
> 5) mount the img file and copy in hal.dll. Once in a while I can't modify the 
> img file so I have to redo 3 and 4
>
> 6) then I use virt-manager to create a new domU and specify the img file for the hard disk. 
>
> I've done three that have worked fine. Another one refuses to boot. It
> tries, but the processor utilization for that domU goes to 100% and it
> never loads. Really don't know why and I'm stuck on that one. 
>
> Once I'm happy with it, I dd it to an lv. 
>
> HTH,
> James
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