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VSMT Problem: Capture script skipping partitions on physical system

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 12/02/2006
From: "techesq" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

I'm migrating a few win2k boxes to a virtual environment and have
successfully migrated two systems thus far using VSMT. I've got the
hang of the process, but my third box is giving me some problems.

It's a win2k sp4 install. The system had dynamic disks (2 disks
configured as RAID1 through the OS). I broke the mirror, reformatted
one of the disks and cloned the disk over to the newly formatted disk
which I left as a basic disk. The drive geometry after the clone was as
follows:
Partition1(C:), 1 GB (System) NTFS (was originally FAT16)
Partition2(D:), 4 GB (Boot) NTFS
Partition3 (J:) 80GB (Data) NTFS

The physical system boots and operates fine.

When I run hardware validation, I don't get any errors. However, when I
run the capture the scripts generated skip partitions 2 and 3. The
capture grabs an image of partition 1 and that's it. I Obviously I'd
would like to image all the partitions.

Anyone have any ideas?

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RE: VSMT Problem: Capture script skipping partitions on physical syste

Sent: 12/10/2006
From: GhostAdmin
Message:

â€œThe Path To Fast P2Vâ€ â€“ The QuickSilver Project

We all have tons of physical machines we want to migrate to Virtual Hosts,
and we all want to do it in a smooth low administrative cost process.
Well, all we have to do is to use the VSMT right? (Virtual Server Migration
Toolkit). The problem is that its too complex to use it, and in the end the
hours you spend to run all the VSMT process is maybe even bigger than the
one you would take to set it up the hole thing again without VSMT at all!!
This is what I came up after some small researching.
I Managed to P2V in 2 Single Steps, and I would like to share my experience
with you.
Suppose you have a nice Windows 2003 Sp1 Machine running on a old Server,
and you want to P2V it to Virtual Server. Simply you use your cloning
solution of you choise (preferably I use Acronis and Ghost), and deliver the
image to the Virtual machine as it was a physical one.
Logical when the Virtual Machine boots you get a â€œBlue Screen of Deathâ€
because of the hardware Incompatibility.
All you have to do is to boot up the Virtual Machine with the Windows 2003
Sp1 CD, choose the R option to go to the Recovery Console, when you just get
the famous â€œDos Like Consoleâ€
This is the amazing part.. you copy from the CD of Windows 2003 Sp1 the
hal.dll and ntoskrnl.exe and override in the Windows system32 directory.
In simple Commands you do as follows..
1.boot the Virtual machine with the cd of Windows 2003 SP1
2. Press R for the Recovery Console
3. choose your Windows Installation (usually option 1)
Go to windows system32 folder by typping cd c:\windows\system32
Then enter the drive letter of cd-rom (usually dïŠ
At d: prompt type cd i386
Then type as follows
Expand ntoskrnl.ex_ c:
Expand hal.dl_ c:
For each command you will take a notification for overwriting the original
files.. we choose yes to replace the files.

Then rebout the machine, remove the cd-rom of window 2003 sp1, let the
machine boot and press F8 to go to option menu for Safe Boot.
THERE YOU ARE, THE TARGET MACHINE IS BOOTING WITH NO ERRORS.
IT WILL AUTO DISCOVER ALL THE HARDWARE AND IT WILL PLAY OK

100% TESTED, MIGRATED MANY MACHINES LIKE THAT.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME FOR ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY NEED.

BEST REGARDS.

ALEXOPOULOS IOANNIS MCSE MCT MVP Candidate.
(email address - cut out)

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