[Libguestfs] P2V challenge that demands some creativity

[Greg Scott]

> 4 - I wonder if a Fedora live CD/ISO has the ability to format 
> and write to NTFS partitions? 

A variation on this option is promising.   Here are the steps:

1 - Download a Fedora 16 Live ISO; use ISO uploader to copy it to your
ISO storage.

2 - Make sure you also have a Windows 2003 ISO and virtio-win VFD in
your ISO storage.

3 - Provision a VM with system drive the size you want and OS Windows
Server 2003.

4 - Select your newly provisioned VM and "Run once".  Put the CDROM
first in the boot order.
    Attach the CD to your Windows 2003 ISO.  Attach the floppy to your
virtio-win VFD.

5 - Press F6 when the Windows setup boots; after it loads, press "S" and
load the 
    Red Hat virtio driver.

6 - Start a Windows installation as normal; create a partition do a
quick NTFS format.

7 - Abort the install as soon as the format finishes.

8 - Stop your VM.

9 - Do "Run Once", putting the CDROM first in the boot order again.
This time attach the 
    CD to the Fedora 16 Live ISO.

10 - Do something else for several minutes later while that Gnome
picture slowly paints.

11 - When it finally finishes painting that screen picture, launch a
terminal window.

12 - In the terminal window, do the following:
     ls /dev | grep vda

13 - You should see files named vda{nn}, where {nn} is a number.  The
one you want is probably vda1.

14 - mkdir /greg
     mount -t ntfs /dev/vda1 /greg
     cd /greg
     mkdir /Windows
     rm (or rmdir) anything else sitting there.

15 - Stop your VM.  Do another "Run once."  Attach the Windows 2003 ISO
to your 
     CDROM and wirtio-win VFD to your floppy.  

16 - Press F6 again to load the Red Hat virtio block driver as before.
     Do a normal Windows 2003 install; note that this time it will find
a /Windows
     directory and prompt to install into another directory.  Here is
where you
     install into /WINNT.

17 - Use ntbackup to backup and restore the C drive and system state
from the source server 
     on top of the newly built VM.

- Greg
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