Hi, I've got an ancient Dell PowerEdge 1660 reached to its end-of-life, and I'm trying to virtualize the existing Windows 2000 installation running on it. Because the server has acquired a lot of crap from our development team, re-deploying all applications into a new virtual Windows installation could take weeks.
The existing server has a SCSI RAID controller, and an older ATI video output on a PCI slot. So I presume I don't have to worry about MergeIDE stuff (because there's no IDE) and agp440.sys driver (because it isn't installed at all and there's no AGP card). I booted the server using a debian netinst ISO, used dd and netcat to dump the whole disk image to its to-be host Windows 2003 server, used VBoxManage convertdd to convert the image to a VDI; all went well. But the migrated guest Windows 2000 failed to start: bootloader started, the "Starting Windows" gauge came to the end, but the classical Windows 2000 splash screen doesn't show up. My blind shot was to use the Repair feature from the Windows 2000 Server CD, to fix any possible HAL issues, unfortunately that didn't help. I also played with IO APIC VM setting, didn't change anything. Any clues? Thanks, -- Enver
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