On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 13:17 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/28/2010 12:55 PM, JohnS wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 12:39 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > >> Running the VMware converter > >> tool from an old Dell Win2k server with an IDE disk to produce an ESXi > >> image went through the motions but the image wouldn't boot - but doing > >> the same thing to a vmware server (v1) image file over a network share > >> worked. Has anyone seen that before? > > --- > > Well for those that must have a Windows OS heres the hack: > > > > You must go to microsoft.com search for the tools to allow that. What > > it does is Relax The Windows IDE Checks so the disk or image can be used > > as a VM or on other hardware. You must also have the same ACPI Options > > in your hypervisor. > > > > This must be done before you use the vmware tools to create the image. > > Thanks - I assumed it had something to do with the old style bios > geometry because I can boot the VM with a linux rescue disk and see what > I expect, but the boot loader can't find it. What seems odd to me is > that it works fine when the conversion is to a VMware server image file > but not when going directly to ESXi (which I'd expect to be smarter). I > haven't tried it yet, but I'll bet that I can run the converter again, > using the .vmx as the source and ESXi as the target and it will work > without any changes to the windows OS. -- Well, thinking in that term it should work. Lets us know. I do know when I first tried it doing images from real hardware is when I hit the problem. VM to VM should work in theory. John