[CentOS-virt] Migrate windows VM from i386 Host to x86_64 host

[James Roman]

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