On 09/ 9/16 11:32 PM, Jason Schmidt wrote:
Hi Ian,
I would be interested in seeing how you got around this, if you don't
mind sharing.
Sure..
The process was somewhat convoluted and some of steps I took may have
been unnecessary but I was working stuff out and leaning windows tools
as I went along.
First off I'm pretty sure this will only work with Hyper-V machines with
a fixed drive, which in my case gave me a 500GB file to work with...
My first step was to convert the vhdx file to a raw with virtual box. I
did this to get a format I know works with qemu-img on SmartOS. If I
had to do this again, I'd see if this step can be skipped.
VBoxManage clonehd fixed-bld-01.vhdx --format RAW fixed-bld-01.raw
On the SmartOS host I created a KVM with two 501GB IDE drives and wrote
the image over the first drive:
qemu-img convert -f raw -O host_device fixed-bld-01.raw
/dev/zvol/rdsk/zones/<uuid>-disk0
The extra GB on the drive prevents qemu-img convert complaining about
lack of space on the volume.
The next phase creates a clean copy of the the drive without a
bootloader using windows imaging tools to image the drive and restore it.
* boot the VM using a windows PE ISO (created using the windows ADK
tools) with a couple of extra utilities (diskpart and imagex) copied
from a running windows system.
* use diskpart to create a partition on the second drive.
* use imagex to create a backup image of the first drive on the second.
* use diskpart to wipe and create a clean partition on the original drive.
* use imagex to restore the backup image of the first drive from the second.
I then halted the VM, deleted the second drive and rebooted from a
server 2012 ISO and followed the repair computer steps to get a command
shell. From there I setup the bootloader:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootsect /nt60 all /force
bootrec /rebuildbcd
bcdboot c:\windows
At this point I had a bootable system :)
After that, add a small virtio dive and a virtio NIC, boot the machine
with a virtio driver ISO attached and install the virtio drivers.
Shutdown the VM, update the first drive to virtio, restart and you will
have a system disk ready for imaging.
Phew, did I say the process was convoluted?
--
Ian.
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