libvirt users - Sep 2014 - P2V Windows XP: image not booting

Greetings,

yesterday I ran the VMware Standalone Converter on a physical
WinXP-machine and generated a ~160 GB image file (vmdk).

Transferred this to my gentoo QEMU/KVM host with libvirtd on it.

app-emulation/libvirt-1.2.3 currently ...

app-emulation/qemu-2.0.0

When I create a VM with this image in it, it only hangs there saying

"Booting from hard disk" and generates CPU load on the host.

When I attach a Windows-iso to the VM to try to repair the boot
environment it also does not boot from the iso and hangs there!

A VM with the iso alone boots.

What could be wrong?

I even converted the vmdk to raw format, same behavior.
Permissions are OK, afaik (it wouldn't work at all then, right?)

I played with CPU, ACPI etc ...

Do I have to use a specific target system within VMware Converter?

I am out of ideas for now.

btw. the same KVM host runs a W2008R2-VM without problems ...

Thanks for any advice on this, Stefan

Am 24.09.2014 um 15:14 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> Do I have to use a specific target system within VMware Converter?
Without other ideas I restarted the converter today and used the most
recent version "VMware Workstation 10.0" for the target.

Converted the resulting vmdk to raw and it booted fine.

Stefan, now facing the challenge to re-activate that XP ...