Re: [Xen-users] Physical Windows HDD Install to Xen DomU Disk Image

["Wardzinski, Todd" <todd.wardzinski@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris, 

I'm fairly motivated to get this to work :-).  If you have any more 
links/information, I would surely appreciate it.

Thanks,
Todd

-----Original Message-----
From: chris [mailto:tknchris@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 11:37 AM
To: Wardzinski, Todd
Cc: Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Physical Windows HDD Install to Xen DomU Disk Image

In the case of windows the big issue is you need something which can properly 
update windows hal to handle the drastic change in hardware.
Acronis can do this with their backup products and the key feature you need is 
"universal restore" which will make sure that the underlying os HAL is updated 
so that windows can boot. This is just one commercial product of which there 
are several and you can do some of the steps manually if motivated enough.

Hope that helps
chris

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Wardzinski, Todd <todd.wardzinski@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> All,
>
>
>
> I have tried a number of methods found through various sites on the 
> Internet to get a physical windows install converted to a Xen DomU 
> disk image.  Such
> as:
>
>
>
> 1.       DomU disk image creation (formatted as ntfs).  We then mounted the
> disk image (loop) and directly copied the physical mount image data to 
> the disk image.
>
> 2.       Qemu-img convert from physical HDD to VHD.
>
> 3.       XenConvert (from Citrix) to VHD
>
>
>
> So far I have not had luck in getting any of these to produce a good copy.
> Does anyone have any good references for this problem?  Possibly a 
> method that works time and time again?
>
>
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions?
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Todd
>
>
>
>
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