Hi all I am trying to migrate a MS Servers 2003 VirtualBox VM to Xen 5.6. After allot of Googling and trial/error I finally decided to take this path (which also failed me). I first convert the .vdi image on a machine running Virtual Box with the following command: VBoxManage clonehd win200301.vdi win200301.vmdk -format VMDK This creates my .vmdk hard drive image without giving errors. I then copy the image over to my system and use XenConvert 2.2.1 to migrate this image to my XenServer. The program converts the VMDK to Xen VHD format and imports the new image but ends with errors in the log. Logs show the following: VMDK to VHD started at 02 November 2010 02:34:52 PM Converting VMDK to VHD... Dismounting VHD... Failed to find device for VHD with Id 2187 Element not found. (0x00000490) Failed to get the system directory. Windows directory is WINDOWS Scanning for BOOT volume... *** Warning! *** Failed to find the Windows Boot Volume. VHD C:\zWorkspace\win200301.vhd was not configured for XenServer. VM may not boot in XenServer. Dismounting VHD... After all this the machine shows up on my XenServer but on boot I get "NTLDR is missing" error. Thought I would get this due to no Windows Boot Volume found as per my log entry. I do not know where my wrong step is that I am taking, I believe the first one? Any help will do! Thanks :) _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi all I am trying to migrate a MS Servers 2003 VirtualBox VM to Xen 5.6. After allot of Googling and trial/error I finally decided to take this path (which also failed me). I first convert the .vdi image on a machine running Virtual Box with the following command: VBoxManage clonehd win200301.vdi win200301.vmdk -format VMDK This creates my .vmdk hard drive image without giving errors. I then copy the image over to my system and use XenConvert 2.2.1 to migrate this image to my XenServer. The program converts the VMDK to Xen VHD format and imports the new image but ends with errors in the log. Logs show the following: VMDK to VHD started at 02 November 2010 02:34:52 PM Converting VMDK to VHD... Dismounting VHD... Failed to find device for VHD with Id 2187 Element not found. (0x00000490) Failed to get the system directory. Windows directory is WINDOWS Scanning for BOOT volume... *** Warning! *** Failed to find the Windows Boot Volume. VHD C:\zWorkspace\win200301.vhd was not configured for XenServer. VM may not boot in XenServer. Dismounting VHD... After all this the machine shows up on my XenServer but on boot I get "NTLDR is missing" error. Thought I would get this due to no Windows Boot Volume found as per my log entry. I do not know where my wrong step is that I am taking, I believe the first one? Any help will do! Thanks :) _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Jean Jacques Siebrits <jean@enetworks.co.za> wrote:> Hi all > > I am trying to migrate a MS Servers 2003 VirtualBox VM to Xen 5.6. > > After allot of Googling and trial/error I finally decided to take this path > (which also failed me). > > I first convert the .vdi image on a machine running Virtual Box with the > following command: > VBoxManage clonehd win200301.vdi win200301.vmdk -format VMDK > > This creates my .vmdk hard drive image without giving errors. > > I then copy the image over to my system and use XenConvert 2.2.1 to migrate > this image to my XenServer. > > The program converts the VMDK to Xen VHD format and imports the new image > but ends with errors in the log. > > Logs show the following: > > VMDK to VHD started at 02 November 2010 02:34:52 PM > Converting VMDK to VHD... > Dismounting VHD... > Failed to find device for VHD with Id 2187 Element not found. (0x00000490) > Failed to get the system directory. > Windows directory is WINDOWS > Scanning for BOOT volume... > *** Warning! *** > Failed to find the Windows Boot Volume. > VHD C:\zWorkspace\win200301.vhd was not configured for XenServer. > VM may not boot in XenServer. > Dismounting VHD... > > After all this the machine shows up on my XenServer but on boot I get "NTLDR > is missing" error. Thought I would get this due to no Windows Boot Volume > found as per my log entry. > > I do not know where my wrong step is that I am taking, I believe the first > one? > > Any help will do! > > Thanks :) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >Use clonezilla or any other HDD clone script to clone the running Windows installation to a new XEN VM -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hello Jean, I have the same issue. Did you solve this ? Can you share your solution ? Thanks Edgar Jean Jacques Siebrits-3 wrote:> > Hi all > > I am trying to migrate a MS Servers 2003 VirtualBox VM to Xen 5.6. > > After allot of Googling and trial/error I finally decided to take this > path > (which also failed me). > > I first convert the .vdi image on a machine running Virtual Box with the > following command: > VBoxManage clonehd win200301.vdi win200301.vmdk -format VMDK > > This creates my .vmdk hard drive image without giving errors. > > I then copy the image over to my system and use XenConvert 2.2.1 to > migrate > this image to my XenServer. > > The program converts the VMDK to Xen VHD format and imports the new image > but ends with errors in the log. > > Logs show the following: > > VMDK to VHD started at 02 November 2010 02:34:52 PM > Converting VMDK to VHD... > Dismounting VHD... > Failed to find device for VHD with Id 2187 Element not found. (0x00000490) > Failed to get the system directory. > Windows directory is WINDOWS > Scanning for BOOT volume... > *** Warning! *** > Failed to find the Windows Boot Volume. > VHD C:\zWorkspace\win200301.vhd was not configured for XenServer. > VM may not boot in XenServer. > Dismounting VHD... > > After all this the machine shows up on my XenServer but on boot I get > "NTLDR > is missing" error. Thought I would get this due to no Windows Boot Volume > found as per my log entry. > > I do not know where my wrong step is that I am taking, I believe the first > one? > > Any help will do! > > Thanks :) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users > >-- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Virtual-Box-to-XenServer-tp30114905p31023581.html Sent from the Xen - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users