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RE: [Xen-users] Windows 2000 DomU

To: 'Fernando Jiménez Solano' <fernandojs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'James Dingwall'" <james.dingwall@xxxxxxxxxx>, "'Antoine Benkemoun'" <antoine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Windows 2000 DomU
From: "Dustin Henning" <Dustin.Henning@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:42:44 -0400
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        Another possibility would be installing Windows 2000 on Xen instead of 
migrating it, then doing a backup on the real machine and restore on the xen 
machine, my understanding is that the system state portion of the backup will 
leave drivers alone so you can restore to another system.  I have seen this 
suggested as a way to migrate to other virtual scenarios, so I would think it 
would work here as well.  You might want to do a web search on migration and/or 
system state backups to find a good list of steps, and an install followed by a 
backup and restore might then be as fast as a making an image and then doing a 
repair (and perhaps cleaner to boot).
        It is also possible that you have Windows 2000 on SATA or SCSI with 
SCSI drivers, in which case you would need to change your boot.ini similar to 
the following:
Before: scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
After: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
This change alone may not resolve your issue, though, because the drivers still 
might not match up, but it would be worth checking your boot.ini and if it has 
scsi, trying that before the more in depth suggestions from myself and others.
        Dustin


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To: James Dingwall; Antoine Benkemoun; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Windows 2000 DomU

I also had that problem. A workaround that fixed was repairing from the  
Windows 2000
CD, then it went all just fine.



On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:34:29 +0200, James Dingwall  
<james.dingwall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am doing tests to convert old rotting servers into a big shiny new Xen
> platform. I have been able to migrate a Windows 2003 server without a
> scratch. I am trying to do the same thing with Windows 2000 Server but
> things aren't so great...
>
> I made an image from the disk that worked in a machine. Then I boot on
> this image using Xen. Windows 2000 starts to boot up then give me a BSOD
> stating UNACESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.
>
> Has anybody encountered this error before ?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help,
>
>
>
> Were you using an IDE disk on the original machine?  There is a problem
> moving 2000/XP system disks between computers when the IDE devices are
> different.  You can fix this by importing some additional registry keys
> before moving the drive or taking the image:
>
> Windows 2000: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822052/en-us
> Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082
>
> Alternatively I don't know if you can change the IDE device that Xen
> will emulate to match the source hardware.
>
> James
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