Urgent Help Required---VM to Proxmox

[Shivaramakrishnan]

Hello
I am a newbie to proxmox.
I was trying to migrate some of the VM's from the VMware machine to proxmox.
Before starting up,made sure vmware tools are not installed.

The procedure I followed is same as given in the Proxmox website:
1.
/opt/purewire/vmware-server-distrib/bin/vmware-vdiskmanager -r WinXP-wsa.vmdk -t 0 WinXP-pve.vmdk
2.
Created a VM on the Proxmox.Did not start--VM300

300 stopped Proxtest2 -

0KB​

3.
copied the vmdk,to the proxmox
scp WinXP-pve.vmdk root@Proxmox_IP:/var/lib/vz/images/300
4.
Converted the vmdk format to qcow2
qemu-img convert -f vmdk WinXP-pve.vmdk -O qcow2 WinXP-pve.qcow2
5.
Go to the hardware tab on the web interface and remove the default harddisk file
Add the migrated harddisk as IDE for windows (only IDE works for windows)

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[TD]Hard disks[/TD]
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[TR]
[TH="align: left"][/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Bus[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Device[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Size (GB)[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Volume ID[/TH]
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[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]IDE[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]IDE 0:0[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]8.00[/TD]
[TD="align: left"]local:300/WinXP-pve.qcow2[/TD]
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6.
Started the VM
7.
After starting the VM,Get the blue screen.

"A problem has been detected ans windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer
Technical Information:
STOP 0x0000007B (X,Y,Z,Z)"

Is there something that I am doing wrong?

 

[e100]

Did you run the mergeide.reg before trying to migrate? That usually prevents that blue screen by ensuring the ide drivers load early in the boot.

 

[Shivaramakrishnan]

Is it safe to run the mergeide.reg?
Where this needs to be ran?Is it on the VM on vmware which is migrated to proxmox?
Can you provide me the steps in order to run it safely?

 

[e100]

I've never had mergeide.reg cause a problem but I have on occasion have it not help.

This will help you: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE

 

[awesome]

I've never had mergeide.reg cause a problem but I have on occasion have it not help.

This will help you: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE

Can I use mergeide.reg to replace DELL RAID (PERC) card to generic IDE/SATA in windows?

 

[e100]

Can I use mergeide.reg to replace DELL RAID (PERC) card to generic IDE/SATA in windows?

Yes that should work.

 

[hotwired007]

After starting the VM,Get the blue screen.

"A problem has been detected ans windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer
Technical Information:
STOP 0x0000007B (X,Y,Z,Z)"

Is there something that I am doing wrong?

You need to run the mergeide.reg before you shut it down on the VMWare box before you copy it to PVE.

The only time i have had issues is when i havent done this.

Also my old versions of XP (Pre SP3) will not reconginse the Virtual E1000 NIC but they do recognise the realtek NIC.

 

[luidurmat]

I tried to migrate a windows server 2008 R2 fron ESXI to Proxmox7 and got the blue screen of death at booting my virtual machine on PROXMOX. I realized that the problem was the HDD was not recognized. Then I fiddled for a while on PROXMOX VM config and find out this: I solved this issue by changing changing the SCSI COntroller Type to MegaRAID SAS 8708E. I was enough to get my hard drive seen at boot. now I have to solve the uefi boot thing, since my windows now try to start but it does not as I have to create a boot partition for UEFI I think.