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

[Qemu-devel] 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

[Qemu-devel] 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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[Qemu-devel] 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

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

[Jernej Simončič]

On 12. februar 2009, 22:46:28, David S. Ahern wrote:

> My attempt is getting a blue screen that disappears very quickly --
> something about a corrupted image.

Try pressing F8 several times as soon as the VM starts up, and choose
"Disable automatic restart on system failure", this should give you
more time to see what the BSOD says.

-- 
< Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ >

Experience varies directly with the equipment ruined.
       -- RB's Five-Thumbs Postulate

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