>Hi there,
>
>As you can see from my extremely descriptive subject title I'm having issues
>with a VM that I have transported between virtualisation software.
>Basically I setup a system to 95% completion using Virtual PC 2007. It was
>working great. As I had just purchased my first server, I thought I would
>setup Virtual Server 2005 R2 and give that a shot. One I got it running I
>finished configuring Visual Studio, during this process I installed IIS6,
>the VM is an XP Pro SP3 based system.
>
>Anyway, after all of that I decided it would be better if I just run the
>whole thing from my laptop as usual, so copied it back to local disk. After
>doing this the VM won't boot correctly, I get to the login screen, enter my
>password, then BOSH, the damn thing resets and boots me out entirely before
>booting back up to the login screen.
>
>So my question is, is there some easy method to save this system? I would
>rather not have to setup all of the software again as that took a couple of
>days, although I do have a backup prior to installing the software on top of
>Windows which is still working fine, it's all of the additional software
>that takes the time.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated! BTW, I can boot up in safe mode no
>sweats.
>
>Nick.

> What you're describing can happen on physical machines too.
> First, have you done a repair installation? You could be seeing
> problems from the differenent CPU/HAL changes from copying back and
> forth between multiple platforms.

> On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:12:23 +0100, "nak" <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>As you can see from my extremely descriptive subject title I'm having
>>issues
>>with a VM that I have transported between virtualisation software.
>>Basically I setup a system to 95% completion using Virtual PC 2007. It
>>was
>>working great. As I had just purchased my first server, I thought I would
>>setup Virtual Server 2005 R2 and give that a shot. One I got it running I
>>finished configuring Visual Studio, during this process I installed IIS6,
>>the VM is an XP Pro SP3 based system.
>>
>>Anyway, after all of that I decided it would be better if I just run the
>>whole thing from my laptop as usual, so copied it back to local disk.
>>After
>>doing this the VM won't boot correctly, I get to the login screen, enter
>>my
>>password, then BOSH, the damn thing resets and boots me out entirely
>>before
>>booting back up to the login screen.
>>
>>So my question is, is there some easy method to save this system? I would
>>rather not have to setup all of the software again as that took a couple
>>of
>>days, although I do have a backup prior to installing the software on top
>>of
>>Windows which is still working fine, it's all of the additional software
>>that takes the time.
>>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated! BTW, I can boot up in safe mode no
>>sweats.
>>
>>Nick.
>
> What you're describing can happen on physical machines too.
> First, have you done a repair installation? You could be seeing
> problems from the differenent CPU/HAL changes from copying back and
> forth between multiple platforms.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
>

>Before I tried sysprep I thought I'd try running the VM in the free VMWare
>Player, it all works fine and the OS actually detected the change and
>offered to reactivate Windows. So through the process of elimination I
>guess this is a Virtual PC bug. Now my VM is working fine, and believe it
>or not, faster than it was previously.
>
>Nick.
>

> Hi Steve,
>
> I've been reading several sources on the net regarding the HAL. Is it
> possible to use "sysprep" to reset the HAL without having to perform a
> repair install? I'm not entirely convinced that doing a repair is going
> to keep everything working intact, considering the amount of patches /
> additional software that was installed on top of the base xp sp3
> installation.
>
> I'm reading about the tool on Microsofts support site at the moment,
> once I've had a go I'll post my results.
>
> Nick.
>
> "Steve Jain [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>> On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:12:23 +0100, "nak" <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi there,
>>>
>>>As you can see from my extremely descriptive subject title I'm having
>>>issues
>>>with a VM that I have transported between virtualisation software.
>>>Basically I setup a system to 95% completion using Virtual PC 2007. It
>>>was
>>>working great. As I had just purchased my first server, I thought I
>>>would
>>>setup Virtual Server 2005 R2 and give that a shot. One I got it running
>>>I
>>>finished configuring Visual Studio, during this process I installed IIS6,
>>>the VM is an XP Pro SP3 based system.
>>>
>>>Anyway, after all of that I decided it would be better if I just run the
>>>whole thing from my laptop as usual, so copied it back to local disk.
>>>After
>>>doing this the VM won't boot correctly, I get to the login screen, enter
>>>my
>>>password, then BOSH, the damn thing resets and boots me out entirely
>>>before
>>>booting back up to the login screen.
>>>
>>>So my question is, is there some easy method to save this system? I
>>>would
>>>rather not have to setup all of the software again as that took a couple
>>>of
>>>days, although I do have a backup prior to installing the software on top
>>>of
>>>Windows which is still working fine, it's all of the additional software
>>>that takes the time.
>>>
>>>Any help would be greatly appreciated! BTW, I can boot up in safe mode
>>>no
>>>sweats.
>>>
>>>Nick.
>>
>> What you're describing can happen on physical machines too.
>> First, have you done a repair installation? You could be seeing
>> problems from the differenent CPU/HAL changes from copying back and
>> forth between multiple platforms.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
>> http://vpc.essjae.com/
>>
>

> On Tue, 26 May 2009 15:30:17 +0100, "nak" <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
>>Before I tried sysprep I thought I'd try running the VM in the free VMWare
>>Player, it all works fine and the OS actually detected the change and
>>offered to reactivate Windows. So through the process of elimination I
>>guess this is a Virtual PC bug. Now my VM is working fine, and believe it
>>or not, faster than it was previously.
>>
>>Nick.
>>
>
> Sounds good. Do you want to continue trying to get it to work with
> VPC or are you happy where you are?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
>