[fedora-virt] Restored Windows Server 2003 VM goes black

[Greg Scott]

This has possibilities.  I just did yum install virt-v2v on a handy
Fedora 14 VM here.  The path is a little different:

[root at p2v32bit Converter]#
[root at p2v32bit Converter]# pwd
/usr/share/perl5/Sys/VirtConvert/Converter
[root at p2v32bit Converter]# ls
RedHat.pm  Windows.pm
[root at p2v32bit Converter]#

Looking over Windows.pm, it looks like it spells out the registry keys
nicely.  Maybe I can put something together to put the files where they
belong and insert those registry keys.  Let me see what I can come up
with and I'll post the results here.

- Greg



-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Booth [mailto:mbooth at redhat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:50 AM
To: Greg Scott
Cc: virt at lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] Restored Windows Server 2003 VM goes black

On 06/10/11 16:10, Greg Scott wrote:
> Thanks.  I don't know anything about perl, but how tough can it be?
Is
> there a handy download link?

Have at look in 
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Sys/VirtConvert/Converter/Windows.pm on a 
machine with virt-v2v installed.

Matt

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Booth [mailto:mbooth at redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 9:55 AM
> To: Greg Scott
> Cc: virt at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] Restored Windows Server 2003 VM goes black
>
> On 06/10/11 15:46, Greg Scott wrote:
>> In the meantime - does anyone have guidance on how to install the
> virtio
>> block driver onto the physical host proactively - with the idea being
>> the migrated virtual server will use it when it boots?
>
> It's more than a little awkward! If you can read perl, have a look in
> Windows.pm from virt-v2v. It opens the guest image with libguestfs,
> copies the driver file over and pokes some keys into the registry for
> the driver and its entry in the CDD.
>
> Everything else it does you can do manually after the guest boots.
>
> Matt


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Matthew Booth, RHCA, RHCSS
Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team

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