I have tried to do exatly the same.
Windows refuses to run. It detects that it is
on a different type of IDE controller or some such
crap, and it will reboot after displaying the windows
screen splash. In a previous email I had received
the advice given on URL
http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows
Do all the steps regarding HAL, Hard Disk Support, and AGP440.
After you do that, then you can TRY to use your hard disk
in virtual box. I am sttill struggling with this problem.
Warning: Do not ever boot windows in a situation
where another bootable windows disk or partition is
visible to the booted windows. The booted windows will
invariably do something NASTY to disable the other bootable
windows partition from booting again.
Cheers,
JD
Enver ALTIN wrote:
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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