Xen users - Jan 2009 - Migrate a Physical Windows to a XEN VM

I´ve migrated a physical Windows XP, using a tutorial that i found on the
web.
I used the vmware converter and then converted the obtained vmdk with
qemu-img.
The problem is that it wont boot, i´ll always get the option menu (to boot
with the "last kown good configuration", Safe, etc) and then a blank
screen
no matter what i choose.
Do i have to do something in the windows installation, previous to the
convertion?

Thank you all

Juan Pablo


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>  I´ve migrated a physical Windows XP, using a tutorial that i found on the
> web.
> I used the vmware converter and then converted the obtained vmdk with
> qemu-img.
> The problem is that it wont boot, i´ll always get the option menu (to boot
> with the "last kown good configuration", Safe, etc) and then a
blank
> screen no matter what i choose.
> Do i have to do something in the windows installation, previous to the
> convertion?
> 
I do this using Backup Exec for Windows 2003 servers (for doing restore tests of
customer backups). The machines that are backed up are physical Windows machines
(eg no virtualisation involved) but are restored into Xen HVM domains.

Part of the restore involves re-applying a few hotfixes, and the system
won''t boot without this, so I assume that Backup Exec has some voodoo
for making the system bootable on the new platform even though it''s
different than the old one.

James

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I''ve migrated some physical Windows servers to a HVM stubdomain with
PING,
look:

http://ping.windowsdream.com
http://ping.windowsdream.com/dl/PING_2.01/PING-2.01.iso

Regards,
Thiago

2009/1/12 James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>
> >  I´ve migrated a physical Windows XP, using a tutorial that i found on
> the
> > web.
> > I used the vmware converter and then converted the obtained vmdk with
> > qemu-img.
> > The problem is that it wont boot, i´ll always get the option menu (to
> boot
> > with the "last kown good configuration", Safe, etc) and then
a blank
> > screen no matter what i choose.
> > Do i have to do something in the windows installation, previous to the
> > convertion?
> >
>
> I do this using Backup Exec for Windows 2003 servers (for doing restore
> tests of customer backups). The machines that are backed up are physical
> Windows machines (eg no virtualisation involved) but are restored into Xen
> HVM domains.
>
> Part of the restore involves re-applying a few hotfixes, and the system
> won''t boot without this, so I assume that Backup Exec has some
voodoo for
> making the system bootable on the new platform even though it''s
different
> than the old one.
>
> James
>
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