Hi guys and girls - would really appreciate some pointers to my issue with enterprise converter
I have successfully P to V'd a number of XP desktops to Workstation images - all ok
I am trying to take an image of a Windows XP machine on a Dell D820 its about 30gb and I choose to allocate all the space now for better performance
The conversion completes successfully ( 3rd time I have done this)
Each time - upon trying to load the image within Workstation where the image is sent to, it gives an inaccessable boot device and a blue screen and I have no idea why
Any suggestions ?
Can you attach a screen shot of the blue screen?
Image upload failed
Text reads
A problem was detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage
If this is the first time la la la etc restart etc
Check for viruses on the computer - la la run chkdsk /F etc
Techincal information
***STOP 0x0000007B ( 0xF88BE524,0x0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
I have tried loading the machine using ERD commander and that cannot see the drive either
Clearly I have an IDE / SCSI related issue on that drive as the O/S cannot boot from it
In VMware Converter, click on "configure machine" and select the workstation XP image you created. Once the configuration is completed now try and start the virtual machine.
Thanks for the reply
I am reimaging the machine ( again ) to start afresh after modyfing the vmx to try and get the scsi stuff removed - no joy
Forgive the question but what do you mean 'configure machine' in vmconverter - where is that option and what is that option intended to do ?
When you open VMware Converter, right beside the "Import Machine" button there is a button for "configure machine".
This reconfigures the .vmx file of the virtual machine to make sure that you are able to boot the virtual machine successfully.
Ok - sure - when you ALREADY have a VM converted ! - I see it on my other version
I will complete the conversion and run the configure option - thanks will post the outcome
Hi
Well the conversion option didnt offer any other configuration options - it was already a workstation image and i did not want a conversion to ESX
So I then proceeded to fire up an existing XP machine and add a brand new 35GB drive and formatted it as NTFS
Then I detached the drive and mapped it so that I could view the volume in explorer
I did the same with the converted drive which would not boot
I then set about replicating the whole file system to the mapped empty volume ( this took some time)
Then I created a brand new VM - Custom - XP and added an existing drive ( which was now IDE - not SCSI) and linked the new drive that I had copied the files to.
Tried to boot it and no joy - it would not boot from this new drive
So I now have a SCSI vmdk and an IDE vmdk with identical data - neither of which boots
The SCSI drive blue screens and the IDE fails to be detected
What I am doing wrong here ?
Lets take a step back,
- Are you converting it as a local standalone virtual machine?
- Can you please attach the boot.ini file from the virtual machine?
- Also, can you attach a screen shot of the disk managmentment screen from the physical machine?
1st, make sure you are not converting anything that may prevent it to work as a virtual machine. for instance - dell openmanage
are you able to safe boot this? then msconfig it down?
Hi guys
Thanks for your suggestions
I had already looked at the boot ini and it only had the 1 ARC path but i'll double check the disk Management screen and come back as the laptop is currently offsite today
Hi Spike
Regarding the error: ***STOP 0x0000007B ( 0xF88BE524,0x0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
We as well had the problem. After the conversion we removed the VM from the inventory. Converted only drive c: and manually attached the data partition. Problem was solved.
Heiko
As you have rightly stated a 7B stop error means inaccessable boot device, you will need to add the Buslogic or LSI driver you your machine prior to the conversion process.
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