Thank you for your suggestion regarding the controller. I have change the IDE controller in VirtualBox to ICH6 [1] and I was able to boot Windows XP properly on OpenNebula.
Best regards [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1437758 On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Lorenzo Faleschini < [email protected]> wrote: > 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]>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]>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, >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> André Monteiro >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:34 AM, M Fazli A Jalaluddin < >>> [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 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing > [email protected]http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > > > -- > Lorenzo Faleschini > Responsabile Sistemi Informativi > > skype: falegalizeit > mobile: +39 335 6055225 > tel: +39 0427 807934 > fax: +39 0434 1820145 > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > >
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