Comments on: Migrating Virtual PC Windows servers to KVM http://blog.loftninjas.org/2009/05/11/migrating-virtual-pc-windows-servers-to-kvm/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:46:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Convert VMware growable, splitted and snapshoted disks « falstaffs Reise durchs Internet http://blog.loftninjas.org/2009/05/11/migrating-virtual-pc-windows-servers-to-kvm/comment-page-1/#comment-2645 Convert VMware growable, splitted and snapshoted disks « falstaffs Reise durchs Internet Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:17:00 +0000 http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=327#comment-2645 [...] source file, and choose qcow2 as output… If you move Windows Machines to KVM, also consider this Blog post to avoid BSOD’s. I had the 7b BSOD, and wiped VMware away already. I had to set the disk to [...] [...] source file, and choose qcow2 as output… If you move Windows Machines to KVM, also consider this Blog post to avoid BSOD’s. I had the 7b BSOD, and wiped VMware away already. I had to set the disk to [...]

]]> By: monotek http://blog.loftninjas.org/2009/05/11/migrating-virtual-pc-windows-servers-to-kvm/comment-page-1/#comment-2355 monotek Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:47:44 +0000 http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=327#comment-2355 Hi. I used Disk2VHD ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx ) to create my HDD Image from running Windows system. The VHD File (MS Virtual PC Image) can be converted with qemu-img too: qemu-img convert -O qcow2 WINDOWS.VHD windows.qcow2 Thanks for the hint with the regkey. After running it i could start my VM in KVM. Without this key it only runs in Virtual Box. Cheers André Hi.

I used Disk2VHD ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx ) to create my HDD Image from running Windows system.

The VHD File (MS Virtual PC Image) can be converted with qemu-img too:

qemu-img convert -O qcow2 WINDOWS.VHD windows.qcow2

Thanks for the hint with the regkey. After running it i could start my VM in KVM. Without this key it only runs in Virtual Box.

Cheers
André

]]> By: btm http://blog.loftninjas.org/2009/05/11/migrating-virtual-pc-windows-servers-to-kvm/comment-page-1/#comment-1781 btm Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:24:45 +0000 http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=327#comment-1781 @Tom, the Processor/Intelppm registry key settins are power management work around. the 0x7b is your standard mass storage driver failure. No HAL issues, it should be easy enough to emulate different hardware configurations if you did. @peter, not to libvirt, but I did use the vmware converter tools once to convert bare hardware to a vmware server guest. I would imagine one could simply replace the early steps in this process with that. @Tom, the Processor/Intelppm registry key settins are power management work around. the 0×7b is your standard mass storage driver failure. No HAL issues, it should be easy enough to emulate different hardware configurations if you did.

@peter, not to libvirt, but I did use the vmware converter tools once to convert bare hardware to a vmware server guest. I would imagine one could simply replace the early steps in this process with that.

]]> By: peter http://blog.loftninjas.org/2009/05/11/migrating-virtual-pc-windows-servers-to-kvm/comment-page-1/#comment-1779 peter Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:55:33 +0000 http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=327#comment-1779 fantastic timing, i have to do this this week. attempted/had any luck moving from bare hardware to libvirt? fantastic timing, i have to do this this week. attempted/had any luck moving from bare hardware to libvirt?

]]> By: Tom H http://blog.loftninjas.org/2009/05/11/migrating-virtual-pc-windows-servers-to-kvm/comment-page-1/#comment-1746 Tom H Wed, 20 May 2009 16:02:51 +0000 http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=327#comment-1746 Very cool Bryan. You know how I like to play with fire.. *beavis voice*.. fire fire! ;) Have you had any HAL issues with drivers or power management? How about networking? Virtual server has some weird networking quirks I have ran into in the past. Very cool Bryan. You know how I like to play with fire.. *beavis voice*.. fire fire! ;) Have you had any HAL issues with drivers or power management? How about networking? Virtual server has some weird networking quirks I have ran into in the past.

]]> By: btm http://blog.loftninjas.org/2009/05/11/migrating-virtual-pc-windows-servers-to-kvm/comment-page-1/#comment-1737 btm Thu, 14 May 2009 22:54:54 +0000 http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=327#comment-1737 A couple machines needed to be reactivated on startup because of the significant underlying hardware changes that is tied to activation. They went fine and I haven't heard a peep out of activation since. A couple machines needed to be reactivated on startup because of the significant underlying hardware changes that is tied to activation. They went fine and I haven’t heard a peep out of activation since.

]]> By: thesethings http://blog.loftninjas.org/2009/05/11/migrating-virtual-pc-windows-servers-to-kvm/comment-page-1/#comment-1732 thesethings Thu, 14 May 2009 02:15:18 +0000 http://blog.loftninjas.org/?p=327#comment-1732 Nice write-up. Did your licensing squawk at all? I did a similar transplant. Everything was fine for about 24 hours, and then activation complained a little. I had a workaround, but it still made me a little nervous. Nice write-up. Did your licensing squawk at all? I did a similar transplant. Everything was fine for about 24 hours, and then activation complained a little. I had a workaround, but it still made me a little nervous.

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