Backstory:
I work at a printshop with several very very ($1,000,000+) printing presses. One of these machines was originally driven by Windows NT on physical hardware. I was able to virtualize it on to ESIX 5.5 and get it upgraded to Windows Server 2000. Thankfully that process went well because I'm not old enough to really know how to use an OS with no device manager.
Anyway, times changes and a better virtualization system has come onto the scene (Proxmox) and it is time for a change. I followed a tutorial on how to export the VMDK from VMWare and then convert it over to QCOW2 with some struggles and the MergeIDE.bat file. Finally I got Windows 2K to boot and it has a mouse pointer, but no keyboard commands are being sent. I've tried the noVNC interface, using "sendkey ctrl-alt-delete" in the Monitor window, and passing through a USB keyboard to VM in the vain attempt to press ctrl-alt-delete to get logged in. Obviously if I can't use a keyboard the converted VM is totally useless so anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking the issue is Windows 2K needs to be triggered to install a driver, but without being able to login that is kind of hard.
I work at a printshop with several very very ($1,000,000+) printing presses. One of these machines was originally driven by Windows NT on physical hardware. I was able to virtualize it on to ESIX 5.5 and get it upgraded to Windows Server 2000. Thankfully that process went well because I'm not old enough to really know how to use an OS with no device manager.
Anyway, times changes and a better virtualization system has come onto the scene (Proxmox) and it is time for a change. I followed a tutorial on how to export the VMDK from VMWare and then convert it over to QCOW2 with some struggles and the MergeIDE.bat file. Finally I got Windows 2K to boot and it has a mouse pointer, but no keyboard commands are being sent. I've tried the noVNC interface, using "sendkey ctrl-alt-delete" in the Monitor window, and passing through a USB keyboard to VM in the vain attempt to press ctrl-alt-delete to get logged in. Obviously if I can't use a keyboard the converted VM is totally useless so anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking the issue is Windows 2K needs to be triggered to install a driver, but without being able to login that is kind of hard.