[Libguestfs] Windows 2003 BSOD, 0X0000007B bug

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:16:01PM +0100, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> I used the very same procedure on two others 2003 servers (one in
> x86 and one in 64 bits), and both are showing BSOD and the very well
> known 0x...7B bug.
> 
> As it is a very known bug, I tried all that is available on earth to
> try to cope with it :
> - before P2V, log as local admin, merge the mergeide.reg into the
> registry, reboot, then halt and P2V
> - before P2V, boot and install the different libraries viostor, net,
> ballooning, and so on... then reboot, then P2V
> - once converted and imported into oVirt, set the disk driver as
> virtio, ide, iscsi...

These steps should never be necessary with v2v/p2v.

See what the manual has to say about this BSOD:

http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html#windows

Rich.

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