[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-users] Converting VMWare Machine with SCSI disks
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 20:35 +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: > 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. > Yes, pretty sure I have followed the doc correctly, but I will go back over it and make sure. > 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've tried a couple different ones following Ian's doc, but I will also retry this. Mine are all single CPU. > > 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've done this same method. On the IDE systems has worked fine. I'll try the above and report back if I have any success. Thanks, James _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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