Re: [VBox-users] Need help migrating Windows Server VMDK to Virtualbox

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:09:33 -0700

Geoff Nordli wrote: 
  
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From: Joe Auty [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 12:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [VBox-users] Need help migrating Windows Server VMDK to
Virtualbox

Brandon High wrote:
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Joe Auty <[email protected]> wrote:

I had a copy of Windows Server 2008 running in VMWare Server as a SCSI
    
disk. On
  
Virtualbox I'm getting the blue screen of death at boot. I'm assuming that
    
this is
  
because it is not seeing the same SCSI controller it is expecting (I'm
    
trying the
  
Virtualbox SCSI controller, for now). I've tried deleting the LSI
    
controller from the
  
device manager on the VMWare side from within Windows, but I'm still
    
getting
  
the BSOD here in Virtualbox.


See if you can export an OVF from VMWare server, and import that into VBox.

You can download VMware OVF Tool 1.0 for free from VMWare.



Cool! I gave this a go, and within Virtualbox I'm getting the error upon
    
importing
  
the OVF file:

Failed to import appliance - could not find a storage controller named
    
'SCSI
  
Controller'. What could be causing this? The VBox result code is:
VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND



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Hi Joe.

I am not sure if these steps work or not, but here are some things that I
would try.........


1) Load the VM in VMWare, remove the VMWare tools
2) shutdown
3) add an IDE disk (any disk, doesn't matter)
4) start the VM
5)  shut the VM down.

6) when you are building the VM on VirtualBox set the disk to use an IDE
controller.


Another option may be to boot the VM in VMWare, then into the device manager
and add a legacy device, and select LSI Logic.  When you are building your
VM in vbox, make sure the scsi adapter type is LSI logic.

Awesome! Thank you! Thank you! This worked...

I guess the learning moment here is that Windows detects hardware post OS boot upon login, whereas Linux can recognize hardware changes at boot providing the appropriate modules and/or kernel support is present - is this accurate? So, presenting an IDE controller to Windows and having this detected prior to the migration was necessary. I suppose that this didn't work with the SCSI controller because of differences to that implementation/driver that caused Windows to freak out? They are both LSILogic based, but I suppose different models or something.

Thanks again for your help!

I've updated this post to reflect this new Windows-specific information, in case this is useful to anyone:

http://www.netmusician.org/2010/05/virtualboxsata





Have a great day!

Geoff 


 





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