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Thanks for the comments. Have started to use Crystal Diskmark....thank you for the pointer to use this. Firstly with my setup as was (Ubuntu 12.04 / KVM 1.0)... The ugraded to Ubuntu 12.10 which has KVM 1.2 .... ( I'm happy to use/test Proxmox 2.2 - but that will have to wait for a trip to...

Okay..now the results when using a LV as the raw disk device (now a block and not a file device)....ITS MUCH FASTER... virtualmachine $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test oflag=direct bs=128k count=1600 1600+0 records in 1600+0 records out 209715200 bytes (210 MB) copied, 0.929538 s, 226 MB/s...

I did have a PERC Raid controller issue, write-back was not set in the bios for this controller (also set adaptive read-ahead whilst making the write change). Now get good performance on the hostmachine (>200MB/sec) but much less performance on a virtualmachine (<30MB/sec). I am using qcow2 as...

On a Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) server if you cp the contents of /usr/bin (approx 200M) it will take approx less than 5 seconds.E.G:- # du -s -h /usr/bin 215M /usr/bin # time cp -r /usr/bin/ home real 0m2.174s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.448s On a Ubuntu server that is a KVM guest machine...

Hi Tom, Expect you are very busy ... would like to try to get a time with you on AOL AIM (that seems a blast from the past) and have you login for 10 minutes or so, to see I'm running the right things to create this disk image. name a date/time and I'll be online. Thx Dave

Have attached a screen shot of the devices list on the HP DL 360 server, showing the two compaq disk devices. Don't think I can remove these ? Dave

Tom, I'm in UK London timezone - but very happy be up late/early to work with you on this. Big thanks.... I have three machines to migrate...but lets focus on the the HP DL 360 ...3G of memory ...2 x 146G disks in a mirrored configuration. C: 67.8G and G: 68.8G ..niothing of importance in G...

How do you remove 'any and all old drivers' from a windows 2003 server ? Not sure if you got my system message to you, but you can either email me on dave @ netfm . org or skype me at abadger1406 to arrange a time to give you login access to the server...if that is ok with you ? Thx Dave

Not so far, still trying to get the HP DL360 converted to KVM....have tried selfimage and VMware convertor, have not yet tried clonezilla.

Hi Dragoon, Not sure if this is what you mean by PM you ? My email is dave@netfm.org / or skype abadger1406 . When is a good time for me to provide you with access, I would like to 'watch' how you do this. Thx dave

I will definitely PM you.....my skype name is abadger1406 (if you use skype). Now about to find the PM button.... I also noted in an old thread on this site that someone had this message to get P2V working...just maybe a pointer to the problems we are seeing ? >>Great Success! >>I found the...

I am getting it to save to a mounted shared drive on the server. The shared drive is being provided by a Samba shared from a local linux server on the network. Yes, have run mergeide.reg many times before trying the conversion. Trying to convert Windows 2003, on three separate servers:- Dell...

I retried the vmware convertor, and selected options suggest by Daroon, but still fails to boot from the created raw disk image. Booting from hard disk... Error loading operationg system Here are the details of the disk created by VMWare convertor: root@m1:/home/dave# file...

Have not yet tried the Clonezilla route, but inspired by Dragoon's full response I retried using VMware vCentre convertor standalone (5.0.0 build-470525). Still get same error when trying to boot from the raw vmdk disk... Booting from Hard Disk... Error loading operating system I...

Tim, Did any of your machines being migrated have RAID cards in them ? What was the hardware config for the windows machines you migrated. Happy to try the clonezilla route - but this means having to go to the data centre and taking down each server and booting from the clonezilla CDROM -...

I retried the selfimage again on the same Dell 2950 sever runing Windows 2003 standard edition, service pack 2. The system has a DEll Perc 5/i raid controller, which is mirroring 2x 146G drives. A further 2x146G drives are installed but not being used. This time I get the BSOD screen when I boot...

Thanks for the feedback.... My system is a Dell 2950 with 4x 146G drives, only the first two being used in a mirrored raid configuration. The OS is Windows 2003 standard edition, and the hardware raid controller reports DELL PERC 5/i Disk Device. I believe the issue lies with the support of...

Thanks for the feedback, very keen to resolve this so happy to try any suggestions. I chose "\Device\Hardidsk0 (entire disk) from the following Selfimage listing on the windows 2003 server.... \Device\floppy \Device\Harddisk0 (entire disk) \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1...

I have three Windows 2003 servers running on HP Dl360, Dell Poweredge 1950 and Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers. To migrate these to a KVM virtual machine I firstly tried vmware converter without sucess (BSOD on boot). So have tried using selfimage as follows:- 1. Installed and run mergeide.reg...