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

[Greg Scott]

Thanks.  I don't know anything about perl, but how tough can it be?  Is
there a handy download link?

- Greg

-----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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Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team

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