===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)

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/223482 migration with VMware, driver lsilogic vs ide...

Seem the option for ##VBoxManage## has changed:
%%VBoxManage convertfromraw vmwin.dd vmwin.vdi
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (3.3.8-desktop-2.mga2) or it failed to
load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/virtualbox start

You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
Converting from raw image file="vmwin.dd" to file="vmwin.vdi"...
Creating dynamic image with size 17708995584 bytes (16889MB)...
%%

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:
~- using the dd I made of a physical installation (not available any more :/)
~~- convert it to a VM usable under GNU/Linux
~~- launch visio for example, office eventually
~~- map the C: and D: (data, My Documents) drives correctly
~~- edit necessary .ini files (D: drive for example)
~- debug boot even though I get a black-screen of death (there might be some log, somewhere)
~- reduce the size of the VM: 12 GB is a bit huge, it corresponds to a ##dd if=/dev/sda1 of=vmwin.dd## there is unused space imho, 4 or even 8 GiB would be better :)
~- launch visio on the .dd file from wine ? (using the original registry for example?)
~- try p2v with qemu or KVM, maybe VirtualBox will do it in the end?

%%md5sum vmwin.*
2e795421f05f0140be240182c7e39551 vmwin.dd
066303a8b37a2a178f378413741d838d vmwin.vdi%%
I made a backup to my USB drive, formatted as ext4 (better for files 12 GiB large... than fat32)
%%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

=== software installed for virtualization ===
%%rpm -qa|grep -iE "virt|vbo|emu"|grep -v virtuoso|sort
dkms-virtualbox-4.1.18-1.mga2
libvirt0-0.9.10-5.mga2
libvirt-gconfig1.0_0-0.0.7-1.mga2
libvirt-glib1.0_0-0.0.7-1.mga2
libvirt-gobject1.0_0-0.0.7-1.mga2
libvirt-utils-0.9.10-5.mga2
python-libvirt-0.9.10-5.mga2
python-virtinst-0.600.1-1.mga2
qemu-1.0-6.2.mga2
qemu-img-1.0-6.2.mga2
virtualbox-4.1.18-1.mga2
vboxadditions-kernel-3.3.8-desktop-2.mga2-4.1.18-1.mga2
vboxadditions-kernel-desktop-latest-4.1.18-1.mga2
virt-manager-0.9.1-2.mga2
virtualbox-guest-additions-4.1.18-1.mga2
virt-viewer-0.4.2-1.mga2
x11-driver-video-vboxvideo-4.1.18-1.mga2
%%

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