cyberhostpro

Hi

I am trying to restore a Server image (using R1soft) from a physcial P4 to a virtual machine.

I get BSOD (blue screen of death) on boot, i can boot on to the windows 2003 CD and run the Repair tool, I tried chkdsk /r and fixbr (fix boot record)
none of them fixed my problem.

has anyone done this before? if so what did you do?

I have attached the error from the vmware monitor (vmware 2.0 server)

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dch

Could this be related to the HDD/RAID drivers? Did the old machine have RAID and the VM is trying to boot with RAID drivers? Or perhaps some other sort of HDD driver issue?

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cyberhostpro

hi

the old machine did not have raid it was a single hard disk 160GB. the VM is a single 160GB Virtual Drive too, the physical machine has Raid but that wont show on a virtual machine.

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JamieBeeston

It's not showing Inaccessible Boot Device which I'd associate with RAID / Boot driver issues..

Certainly some sort of issue though.

Personally I'd not use R1soft, but the VMWare Hot or Cold Virtualization CD / Software.

J

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cyberhostpro

hi

is there some app VMWare provide to help assist move from physical to virtual?

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VMware vCenter Converter, Convert Physical Machines to Virtual Machines I believe

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catalyst2

What virtual hardware do you have set in your VM config? I usually find that the buslogic controller is best on first boot for some reason, then swap to one of the LSI ones after the initial vmware tools install.

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Pete-CCS

Is it because you've moved from single processor to uni-processor? The Windows HAL doesn't allow this - try emulating a "pile of junk" server in VMware and try again..

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Its not the famous issue windows drivers failing to update.. I always thought that when you moved an OS platform to a different mobo/platform you have to do a repair install for windows to re-config its self correctly.

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JamesSykes

Deffo give Vmware Converter a go. Never had a problem with win2k3 and i've done hundreds of conversions. Usually Win2k that throws up issues.

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