VMware vSphere

I downloaded the latest version of Converter (standalone) and P2V'ed a windows 7 workstation. When I try to start the VM it bluescreens with the 0x7b stop error. Below are the contents of my vmdk file for that vm. Does anyone have any clue how to fix this? Thanks.

1. Disk DescriptorFile

version=1

encoding="UTF-8"

CID=f81b2a59

parentCID=ffffffff

createType="vmfs"

1. Extent description

RW 312624900 VMFS "z200w7base.rt.corp-flat.vmdk"

1. The Disk Data Base

#DDB

ddb.geometry.biosHeads = "255"

ddb.geometry.biosSectors = "63"

ddb.geometry.biosCylinders = "19460"

ddb.adapterType = "lsilogic"

ddb.geometry.sectors = "63"

ddb.geometry.heads = "16"

ddb.geometry.cylinders = "16383"

ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 98 7a 72 a0 0d-9e 2b 6c 06 05 4b b1 db"

ddb.longContentID = "4712b28e7446e7cc5326fdac9751cd38"

ddb.virtualHWVersion = "7"

maybe this will help.

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005208

make sure the disk is assigned as LSI SAS - then follow this procedure:

taken from my site http://sanbarrow.com/p2v2008r2.html

Patching - easy variant

This procedure is used when otherwise the VM would boot into a bluescreen type 7B.

This assumes that VMware is the target and you configure the VM with VirtualHardware type 7.

It only applies if the virtual disk is configured like this

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"

scsi0:0.fileName = "imported.vmdk"

On the target platform boot the newly created VM into the Windows 7 Recovery CD.

After boot is finished click on the CMD-button and run regedit.

Select HKLM and then Menu > File > Load Hive.

Browse to the Windows-directory on the virtualdisk > system32\config and select the file SYSTEM.

When asked for a name enter p2v.

Then find the key

HKLM\p2v\ControlSet001\services\LSI_SAS

and set the start type to REG_DWORD 0

Then select HKLM\p2v and click Menu > File > Unload Hive.

You can close regedit now and restart.

On next boot you can start into the 2008 R2 or Windows 7 system. It should find drivers and probably needs a reboot when done.




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