Re: [Xen-users] Migrate a Physical Windows to a XEN VM

["Thiago Camargo Martins Cordeiro" <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've migrated some physical Windows servers to a HVM stubdomain with PING, look:

http://ping.windowsdream.com
http://ping.windowsdream.com/dl/PING_2.01/PING-2.01.iso

Regards,
Thiago

2009/1/12 James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  I´ve migrated a physical Windows XP, using a tutorial that i found on the
> web.
> I used the vmware converter and then converted the obtained vmdk with
> qemu-img.
> The problem is that it wont boot, i´ll always get the option menu (to boot
> with the "last kown good configuration", Safe, etc) and then a blank
> screen no matter what i choose.
> Do i have to do something in the windows installation, previous to the
> convertion?
>

I do this using Backup Exec for Windows 2003 servers (for doing restore tests of customer backups). The machines that are backed up are physical Windows machines (eg no virtualisation involved) but are restored into Xen HVM domains.

Part of the restore involves re-applying a few hotfixes, and the system won't boot without this, so I assume that Backup Exec has some voodoo for making the system bootable on the new platform even though it's different than the old one.

James

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