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

[M Fazli A Jalaluddin]

Thank you for your suggestion regarding the controller.
I have change the IDE controller in VirtualBox to ICH6 [1]
and I was able to boot Windows XP properly on OpenNebula.

Best regards

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1437758


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Lorenzo Faleschini <
lorenzo.faleschini at nordestsystems.com> wrote:

>  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>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>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> 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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