Information conversion P2V from Windows 2000/2003

nikkar — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:23:00 GMT

CPU cores - Ideally you do not want to assign all cores to any one virtual machine
Soft power function does not work if console is logged in but locked

Scsiport.sys - w2k has problems sometimes - replace with 2003 version or install the latest Windows 2000 Security Rollup Package
Conversion:
Manually install agent if agent will not push install
Fix for ts convert:
Hklm\hardware\devicemap\serialcom
Remove com ports after 2

Post conversion cleanup:
Edit vm and remove unused hardware.
Take snapshot
Check scsi controller type if necessary - w2k=buslogic w2k3=lsi logic

Install Vmware tools
Show devices in device manager so that you can remove them:
Cmd - set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
Devmgmt.msc
Delete devices from devmgr - view-show hidden devices
Do not delete ras sync driver!!!!

Uninstall hardware specific drivers or program such as hp management agents
Do this to convert from 2 cpu to 1:
Expand computer node - right click - update driver on acpi - don't search I'll choose - Advanced configuration and power Interface (ACPI) PC
For w2k choose the acpi uniprocessor

Remove snapshot after conversion is ok.

Troubleshooting:
If converter fails at end but finishes creating the VM then it is probably boot.ini
Edit boot.ini by adding disk to helper machine and editing there. Then shutdown helper and rerun converter in configure machine mode
If system logs you out after you login it is probably a drive letter issue:
Add hard disk to helper and check \hklm\system\mounteddevices then open the registry on the drive you mounted and compare (drive:\windows\system32\config\system) with the one on the drive

Good info about conversion from Windows 2000

http://www.mindtricks.com/news/tabid/74/EntryID/5/Default.aspx

Interesting link from community

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/131443?tstart=150

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/70682?tstart=0&start=45

Updates regarding problems with converter not finishing

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006284

Check Windows Server start up time

nikkar — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:58:00 GMT

net statistics server | more

Result would be something like:

*********************************
Server Statistics for
Statistics since 24/12/2007 15:00 AM
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Knorrhane

Information conversion P2V from Windows 2000/2003

Check Windows Server start up time