[one-users] BSOD when deploy Windows XP VM in OpenNebula 4.2

[Lorenzo Faleschini]

If you've created the XP machine in VBox it's easy that it has been 
configured with IDE channel. So it's a matter of controller if BSOD, not 
matter of QCOW2 or RAW image.

to boot in ONE just set DEV_PREFIX="hda" in the template or in the image 
of your xp machine.

if still not booting check if you uninstalled the VBoxTools before 
converting it.

if you want (and you better do so if you want a bit of performance) 
switch to virtio controller for storage you have to do the following 
steps (in order to let the "poor" xp load correctly the drivers)

- boot xp using DEV_PREFIX="hd" in order to test if it works correctly
- shutdown and add any image (eg: a cdrom) with virtio "DEV_PREFIX=vd"
- when it loads XP will find a new hardware and ask you for drivers:  
load them from the virtio cdrom 
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/ this will 
let XP know how to access a VirtIO SCSI drive in boot phase
- shutdown after installing drivers, remove the "fake image" you used 
with vd prefix, and change DEV_PREFIX=""vd" for the WinXP System drive image
- instantiate and enjoy xp with virtio


bye

(this works for win 7 too)


Il 30/11/2013 02:15, M Fazli A Jalaluddin ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I also have deployed Windows 7 qcow2 format on OpenNebula without the 
> any problem.
> which I used VirtualBox to create the image first and convert it from 
> .vdi to .qcow2 using qemu-utils.
>
> May I know how to use IDE instead?
>
> PS: I have tried using both qcow2 and raw format but still blue 
> screen. The Blue screen appears shortly after the Windows XP loading 
> bar splash screen.
>
> Best regards
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Shankhadeep Shome 
> <shank15217 at gmail.com <mailto:shank15217 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     For windows VMs you need to make sure the correct virtio block
>     drivers are installed, you might get lucky with using ide instead.
>     Remove the virtualbox guest tools before moving the vm over.
>
>
>     On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:25 AM, André Monteiro
>     <andre.monteir at gmail.com <mailto:andre.monteir at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I have some experience on Windows machines, and all are
>         running on qcow2 without problems. When does exactly the VM
>         blue screen appears? While not discarding a qemu
>         problem, Windows OS is very sensible to hardware changes and
>         the problem can be at the loading drivers step, which are not
>         part of the new system.
>
>         I have two suggestions:
>         - Try to replicate Virtualbox hardware as close as possible on
>         OpenNebula and boot in Safe Mode
>         - Try to install a clean image on OpenNebula to check XP
>         compatibility
>
>         Regards,
>
>
>
>         --
>         André Monteiro
>
>
>
>         On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:34 AM, M Fazli A Jalaluddin
>         <fazli.jalaluddin at gmail.com
>         <mailto:fazli.jalaluddin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Dear All,
>
>             I was trying to install Windows XP in VirtualBox and
>             convert it to qcow2.
>
>             After I upload the qcow2 image to OpenNebula and
>             instantiate the template,
>             the image goes BSOD while in Virtualbox, the VM works fine.
>
>             I done some google and found out that there was some bug
>             in qemu which cause this [1].
>             Is there any possible solutions to this? Please help advise.
>
>             Thank you
>             Best regards
>
>             [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1437758
>
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