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This is an old revision of Blog20120303Virtualization made by BenoitAudouard on 2012-11-14 21:50:30.

 

Some links about virtualization

http://cookerspot.tuxfamily.org/wikka.php?wakka=Blog20080716Virtualization


VirtualizationVirtualBox
VirtualizationKVM

cf. http://cookerspot.tuxfamily.org/wikka.php?wakka=VirtualBoxWindows for initial work done to virtualize windows using VirtualBox

Virtualizing Windows XP on disk to VirtualBox

(no success so far, still a black screen :/)

For 16 GB : begin at 22h27 of dd, end at 22h38 (apparently I've got 50 MB I/O throughput which should take me approximately 5 minutes to end up, or rather 10 minutes if I/O include read/writes : 16 GB * 1024 / 50 MB/s / 60 seconds * 2 to get the result in minutes )
ok confirmed :

[root@localhost vm]# dd if=/dev/sda1 of=vmwin.dd
34587882+0 enregistrements lus
34587882+0 enregistrements écrits
17708995584 octets (18 GB) copiés, 695,955 s, 25,4 MB/s



 cd /media/data1/vm/
mkdir vmwinmount
mount -o loop  vmwin.dd /media/data1/vm/vmwinmount # and the partition is available for modification


# mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,acl,commit=600)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /media/data1 type ext4 (rw,noatime,acl,commit=600)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/baud/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=baud)
/dev/loop0 on /media/data1/vm/vmwinmount type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)





du -k ; du -m ; du -h # shows (kB, MB, GB...)
17293952
16889
17G

At approximately 70 MB writing on disk, it should end up in 5 min (well, yes it took 5 min :D)

VBoxManage convertdd vmwin.dd vmwin.vdi
Converting from raw image file="vmwin.dd" to file="vmwin.vdi"...
Creating dynamic image with size 17708995584 bytes (16889MB)...



first boot of VM newly created using vmwin.vdi results only in a black screen and 1 CPU running at 100% till stopping the VM :/ some possible reasons :
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1016613∞ boot.ini configured with the parameter /burnmemory = 4096, the RAM is reduced to 4 GB (reduces the RAM another 4 GB, which leaves the virtual machine with 0 GB of RAM o_O)



reasons for black screen of death when migrating windows xp to VirtualBox
looking for the reason why I've got a black screen, cursor blinking when first booting windows migrated to VirtualBox


apparently not related
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4942 due to upgrade
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1633 due to guest additions
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=99321 due to upgrade
http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1538-fixing-a-virtualbox-windows-xp-blue-screen.html blue screen when moving VM

intelppm.sys virtualbox
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/420
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows There are a few Windows device drivers that does not play nice on VirtualBox' hardware. A similar problem may exist with intelppm.sys, which can also cause a hang of the guest OS.


Trying yet another time

Some objectives:
md5sum vmwin.*
2e795421f05f0140be240182c7e39551  vmwin.dd
066303a8b37a2a178f378413741d838d  vmwin.vdi


df -h .
Sys. fich.     Taille Util. Dispo Uti% Monté sur
/dev/sda7         50G   44G  4,1G  92% /media/data1

hmmm I won't be able to work on this, copying on another laptop ;-)

some more links

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1671329
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&document=DT_KB_1_1&searchString=p2v other searches



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