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 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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
    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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,



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        On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:34 AM, M Fazli A Jalaluddin
        <[email protected]
        <mailto:[email protected]>> 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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