running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu

running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu

[David S. Ahern]

Has anyone successfully ported a Windows XP image from vmware server to
kvm/qemu?

My attempt is getting a blue screen that disappears very quickly --
something about a corrupted image. I can attach the disk image as a
second drive to another XP instance -- one created with kvm and running
on it -- and the original disk image seems to be fine.

Any ideas?

david

Re: running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu

[Mark Bidewell]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:46 PM, David S. Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> wrote:
> Has anyone successfully ported a Windows XP image from vmware server to
> kvm/qemu?
>
> My attempt is getting a blue screen that disappears very quickly --
> something about a corrupted image. I can attach the disk image as a
> second drive to another XP instance -- one created with kvm and running
> on it -- and the original disk image seems to be fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> david
>
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Can you boot into safe mode?  I know that WinXP, is very sensitive to
HW changes.

-- 
Mark Bidewell
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Re: running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu

[David S. Ahern]

Mark Bidewell wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:46 PM, David S. Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone successfully ported a Windows XP image from vmware server to
>> kvm/qemu?
>>
>> My attempt is getting a blue screen that disappears very quickly --
>> something about a corrupted image. I can attach the disk image as a
>> second drive to another XP instance -- one created with kvm and running
>> on it -- and the original disk image seems to be fine.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> david
>>
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> 
> Can you boot into safe mode?  I know that WinXP, is very sensitive to
> HW changes.
> 
No. agp440.sys is the last file loaded before the bluescreen.

david

RE: running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu

[Martin Maurer]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org] On
> Behalf Of David S. Ahern
> Sent: Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2009 22:46
> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; kvm-devel
> Subject: running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu
> 
> Has anyone successfully ported a Windows XP image from vmware server to
> kvm/qemu?

See http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE

Br, Martin

> 
> My attempt is getting a blue screen that disappears very quickly --
> something about a corrupted image. I can attach the disk image as a
> second drive to another XP instance -- one created with kvm and running
> on it -- and the original disk image seems to be fine.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> david
> 
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Re: running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu

[Harald Braumann]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:51:55 -0700
"David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com> wrote:
> No. agp440.sys is the last file loaded before the bluescreen.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows

Cheers,
harry

Re: [Qemu-devel] running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu

[Jamie Lokier]

David S. Ahern wrote:
> Has anyone successfully ported a Windows XP image from vmware server to
> kvm/qemu?
> 
> My attempt is getting a blue screen that disappears very quickly --
> something about a corrupted image. I can attach the disk image as a
> second drive to another XP instance -- one created with kvm and running
> on it -- and the original disk image seems to be fine.

It's possible QEMU's vmware-format disk image code has a bug.

Did you run with the vmware disk image directly, or convert to a raw
format using VMware's own tool first?  If not, and the raw size isn't
too large, try that.

-- Jamie

Re: running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu

[David S. Ahern]

Martin Maurer wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org] On
>> Behalf Of David S. Ahern
>> Sent: Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2009 22:46
>> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; kvm-devel
>> Subject: running windows xp created by vmware server on kvm/qemu
>>
>> Has anyone successfully ported a Windows XP image from vmware server to
>> kvm/qemu?
> 
> See http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE
> 
> Br, Martin

That did the trick. Thanks for sharing.

david