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Reputation: 18711

Migrating KVM guest to VMware: stuck on Error Recovery screen

I'm trying to move an old Win2008 server from KVM to VMware ESXi 6.7. I realize the Win2008 VM is old and beyond EoS but need to keep this in place for now and is in a VLAN that is not internet accessible.

I tried to follow recommendations from Convert qcow2 to vmdk and make it ESXi 6.0 Compatible and steps I found on the web:

However I'm stuck with a Windows Error Recovery: Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. screen at boot up.

I tried to use some conversion options like qemu-img convert -p -f qcow2 -O vmdk -o adapter_type=lsilogic,subformat=streamOptimized,compat6 win2008.qcow2 win2008.vmdk and tried moving between the 3 available scsi controllers (LSI Logic SAS, LSI Logic Parallel, VMware Paravirtual) to no avail.

When I boot the guest in Safe mode, I see a bunch of sys files get loaded properly until it's stuck after Loaded: \Windows\system32\drivers\crcdisk.sys.

Does anyone have an idea on how to move this guest properly? Any other conversion options to try? Driver install on the running guest (in KVM) first?

Note I'm not running vCenter.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1411

Answers (1)

JMHerrer
JMHerrer

Reputation: 137

Do you try to use VMware Converter Tool ? I think that is the easy way to move your server to VMware. You can download the tool it is free. https://www.vmware.com/products/converter.html

Upvotes: 1

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