Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 06:05:19 CST 2010
Hello All, Well I ran the P2V mentioned below and it worked a treat. The image is 80 GB. I think created a new machine in HyperV and it also worked a treat, and then booted the machine. After it booted, it said it must connect to MS to activate Windows, which is OK, I know the hardware is different. However, the machine is not seeing the network connection / internet and cannot connect to MS. The only other option is to phone MS but they say I need my CD to call out the PID Key. Believe it or not, I consciously threw out about 100 CD a few months ago, including loads of old Dell OS disks - including the OS for this laptop. I have other XP images and keys I can use, but I do not want to re-install XP on the V machine, it defeats of the purpose of the P2V tool. So, any ideas how I will get the newly imaged V machine to see the internet through HyperV. I have installed the legacy network and bound it to the physical card on the host machine. TIA Mark 2010/1/14 Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> > Thanks Steve, > > that is great news, I will try Sysinternals today > > Mark > > > 2010/1/13 Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> > > Mark, >> >> >> First to Steve: you mentioned that you had to use an XP Cd to perform a >> repair / upgrade. Is that because the machine was Win98? Could you not >> have left it running as Win98. The reason I ask is I have an XP Laptop I >> want to P2V so I am wondering will I still need to dig out a XP disk, or >> if >> I am happy with the OS, can I use the tools you kindly recommdned and I >> will >> be good to go. << >> >> I'm sorry if I confused the issue. John asked about Windows 98. I have >> not >> converted a Windows 98 machine to a VM...I've only done it successfully >> with >> two Windows XP Pro machines. >> >> I had to dig out the XP disk because converting an existing physical XP >> machine to a VM requires that Windows XP be informed as to the different >> hardware available to it. It's similar to extracting a Windows hard disk >> from one machine and installing it into a completely different PC and >> trying >> to get it to boot. You have to run a repair on Windows to get it to >> recognize the new hardware and install the necessary drivers. >> >> The Sysinternals Disk2vhd program simply converts the existing hard disk >> to >> a VHD file with no alteration of the contents of the drive. The repair >> has >> to be done on Windows to get it to boot as a VM using Microsoft Virtual >> PC. >> My educated guess would be that something similar has to be done with any >> other virtualizing software before a converted bootable drive can be made >> to >> run under a virtualization scheme. >> >> My 2nd XP machine that I converted to a VM was a royal pain in the neck >> because its registry was a little flaky. I finally used PCTools Registry >> Mechanic to iron out its wobbles. That allowed a "clean" VHD to be >> created. >> THEN I could repair the Windows install. >> >> Regards, >> >> Steve Erbach >> Neenah, WI >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hello All, >> > >> > I am reading this thread with baited breath. >> > >> > ( >> > By they way, is that the correct spelling of baited, should it be bated, >> as >> > in unabated. >> > >> > Haha, I just googled this question, and if you do not mind, I will leave >> it >> > here for amusement >> > http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm >> > http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bated-breath.html >> > >> > ) >> > >> > >> > Back to the thread. >> > >> > First to Steve: you mentioned that you had to use an XP Cd to perform a >> > repair / upgrade. Is that because the machine was Win98? Could you not >> > have left it running as Win98. The reason I ask is I have an XP Laptop >> I >> > want to P2V so I am wondering will I still need to dig out a XP disk, or >> if >> > I am happy with the OS, can I use the tools you kindly recommdned and I >> > will >> > be good to go. >> > >> > To Bobby:My brother is trying to convince me to switch to VMWare instead >> of >> > VM by MS, including the HyperV Services that I am happy with on W2k8. >> Do >> > you think that VM ware is better, If so, should I try to install from >> > scratch or can I load it on top of W2k8. I get the impression from a >> first >> > pass on the VM ware site that there are two breeds of VM ware, on that >> > installs over an existing OS and one that installs on a bare metal box - >> is >> > that a correct assumption? If so, I have to assume that the bare metal >> box >> > is much better. >> > >> > >> > To All: >> > This year I build a number of VM machines, Win2k3, 2k8, Vista, Win7, XP >> Pro >> > etc. My experience was pretty much good. I can use them as IIS >> Servers, >> > SQL Servers etc with no probs. However, when I try to use the Vista or >> the >> > W7 machine as a Front End machine, IOW as a machine where the primary >> > function is to server a fast GUI then I was dis-satasfied. IOW, I can >> use >> > it for a few minutes or hours even, but when I was the sort of response >> > time >> > you get from a native machine, the VM was not giving it. Sure it can >> load >> > MS word or VS2008, but I found small delays of 1/2 second to be >> tireseome >> > when traversing VS2008 or SSMS etc. >> > >> > IOW, my personal summary was for rapid response from a GUI stick with >> > physical machine, but the VM were really really good as a second choice. >> > >> > I built up a library of machine that I do not touch, and a second >> library >> > that I use, but can delete and replace with the clean machine at >> anytime. >> > >> > One last thing, you can move machines from Virtual Server to HyperV, but >> > you >> > have to re-activate Windows when you move them. >> > One other last thing, since I saw how good HyperV is, I do not wish to >> ever >> > use Virtual Server again. >> > AFAIK, HyperV requires W2k8 >> > >> > Hope someone benefits from this and you do not have to wait with bated >> > breath again like me:) >> > >> > Mark >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > 2010/1/13 Bobby Heid <bheid at sc.rr.com> >> > >> > > John, >> > > >> > > I used VMware Converter (http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/) >> to >> > > convert my Vista64 PC using a Ghost 14 backup image to a VM with great >> > > success. I think, from what I read, that doing V2PC for stuff other >> than >> > > Vista is pretty easy. >> > > >> > > Bobby >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > >