[CentOS-virt] Migrate windows VM from i386 Host to x86_64 host
Hildebrand, Nils, 232
Nils.Hildebrand at bamf.bund.de
Tue Sep 1 12:59:02 UTC 2009
Hi,
sounds strange.
Basically a dd should be enough to clone the machine.
I guess the hardware-model that gets through to the Windows-VM changes
when the Kernel-Achitecture changes.
So basically you swapped a 32-bit mainboard with a 64-bit mainboard - as
far as VM is concerned.
So I guess you have to "reapair" your Windows with some kind of
Windows-rescue-mode.
Which Windows is it?
With XP I had some success with booting from an install-media and then
going to "repair existing" after the install-process has detected the
already installed partition.
Afterwards all XP-patches had to be re-applied - though. But all
installed applications were still there.
You'd better try that procedure with cloned data...
Kind regards
Nils
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:centos-virt-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of James Roman
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 3:24 PM
> To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS
> Subject: [CentOS-virt] Migrate windows VM from i386 Host to
> x86_64 host
>
> Somehow one of our Xen servers ended up loaded with the i686
> xen kernel, instead of the x86_64. The host has one windows
> VM running on it. The OS partition is file-based, but it also
> has a logical volume partition assigned for data. We would
> like to migrate the host server to a 64-bit kernel, which
> means moving the VM to one of our other 64-bit host servers.
> We tried simply copying the OS partition and using dd to move
> the LVM partition to a new host unsuccessfully. I'm pretty
> sure that dd may not be appropriate when moving between
> kernel architectures.
> However, even without the LVM partition specified in the vm
> config file, we are unable to boot the windows system. It
> looks like it is blue screening immediately, since we never
> get a console connection. Are there any instructions anywhere
> for moving VMs from one host architecture to another?
>
> Current Host:
> Centos 5.3 i686 kernel 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 Xen 3.0.3-80.el5_3.3
>
> Destination Host:
> Centos 5.3 x86_64 kernel 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5 Xen 3.0.3-80.el5_3.3
>
>
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