5:13 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:03:43PM +0100, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
Just to be sure : I attached the complete log file into a compressed
attachement. Did you get it?
Yes, I got the log file.
[...]
>You could grab it and post it somewhere (but note that
registries
>contain sensitive data such as passwords):
>
> mkdir /tmp/registry
> virt-copy-out -a /path/to/guest.img 'win:C:\windows\system32\config'
/tmp/registry
>
>(I only need to see the files 'SYSTEM' and 'SOFTWARE')
I don't how to get the guest.img, I guess it would be available at
some point during the conversion, but I just have a physical server.
And about the two files, is it OK if I provide you the files
directly coming from the real physical server?
From the server which is the source of the P2V conversion, yes.
Rich.
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3:25 p.m.
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Thanks for providing the SOFTWARE and SYSTEM hives. Firstly the
SOFTWARE hive has an unusually large 'nk' node, which required me to
increase one of the limits in hivex:
https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex/commit/bec3f0bb632c4b84a1dfb73eb6333c...
The SYSTEM hive was even more interesting:
$ hivexsh system
Welcome to hivexsh, the hivex interactive shell for examining
Windows Registry binary hive files.
Type: 'help' for help summary
'quit' to quit the shell
system\> ls
ControlSet001
ControlSet002
LastKnownGoodRecovery
MountedDevices
Select
Setup
WPA
system\> cd ControlSet001\Services
system\ControlSet001\Services> cd Firstboot
hivexsh: cd: Argument list too long
This was the error seen in the conversion, and it turned out to be
caused by the hive containing a node which contains a French name,
encoded in UTF-8.
This is a bit more complicated to solve ..
Rich.
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3:34 p.m.
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 09:25:40PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
This was the error seen in the conversion, and it turned out to be
caused by the hive containing a node which contains a French name,
encoded in UTF-8.
^^
Actually it's Latin-1, not UTF-8.
Rich.
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4:11 p.m.
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OK the Windows "argument list too long" thing should be fixed
by hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7 which is in the usual place.
Rich.
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1:24 a.m.
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Le 20/11/2014 23:11, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit :
OK the Windows "argument list too long" thing should be fixed
by hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7 which is in the usual place.
Rich.
It's a real pleasure to start a working day and see that a yum upgrade
displays some fresh packages just related to our issues :)
Thank you Richard.
But as usual, I won't be able to test them on the real server before
tonight (production server).
For your information, when this conversion will run smoothly, I will
have lots of other servers to convert, so your work will get intensively
tested and very appreciated.
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4:41 a.m.
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Le 21/11/2014 08:24, Nicolas Ecarnot a écrit :
Le 20/11/2014 23:11, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit :
>
> OK the Windows "argument list too long" thing should be fixed
> by hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7 which is in the usual place.
>
> Rich.
>
It's a real pleasure to start a working day and see that a yum upgrade
displays some fresh packages just related to our issues :)
Thank you Richard.
But as usual, I won't be able to test them on the real server before
tonight (production server).
For your information, when this conversion will run smoothly, I will
have lots of other servers to convert, so your work will get intensively
tested and very appreciated.
Richard, Matthew et al,
I'm extremely glad to announce that last night, _we_ (you and I) were
finally able to complete a conversion of this tricky windows 2003 server.
When completed, the import into oVirt went fine, but booting lead to a
BSOD, which I corrected by merging mergeide.reg into the source machine
and starting the whole process again. Then I fine tuned it by installing
the dedicated virt drivers (virtio, net, scsi) and it eventually worked.
I guess the success key was that very last release of the packages
coming from the libguestfs-RHEL-7.1-preview.repo repo :
[root@serv-p2v-adm1 etc]# tail -8 /var/log/yum.log
Nov 21 08:19:52 Updated: hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7.x86_64
Nov 21 08:19:53 Updated: perl-hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7.x86_64
Nov 21 08:19:53 Updated: 1:libguestfs-1.28.1-1.13.el7.x86_64
Nov 21 08:19:54 Updated: 1:libguestfs-tools-c-1.28.1-1.13.el7.x86_64
Nov 21 08:19:54 Updated: 1:perl-Sys-Guestfs-1.28.1-1.13.el7.x86_64
Nov 21 08:19:54 Updated: 1:libguestfs-tools-1.28.1-1.13.el7.noarch
Nov 21 08:19:54 Updated: 1:libguestfs-devel-1.28.1-1.13.el7.x86_64
Nov 21 08:19:55 Updated: 1:virt-v2v-1.28.1-1.13.el7.x86_64
For me, it has been more than a month of struggle, doc reading, testing,
and way too many failures; but thanks to the libguestfs team, I succeeded.
So I'd like to express my sincere thanks to Richard and Matthew for your
support and professionalism.
As I explained it this long thread, I will have many more machines to
convert, so they may be parts I may wish to see unsharpened (iptables
concerns, sshd_config, livecd via pxeboot), but I know now that the code
is correct and the pieces are fitting.
Once again, thank you gentlemen.
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5:14 a.m.
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:41:54AM +0100, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
When completed, the import into oVirt went fine, but booting lead to
a BSOD, which I corrected by merging mergeide.reg into the source
machine and starting the whole process again. Then I fine tuned it
by installing the dedicated virt drivers (virtio, net, scsi) and it
eventually worked.
Hang on there ... Using 'mergeide.reg' should *not* be necessary ...
What was the BSOD?
Rich.
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6:12 p.m.
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Le 22/11/2014 12:14, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit :
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:41:54AM +0100, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> When completed, the import into oVirt went fine, but booting lead to
> a BSOD, which I corrected by merging mergeide.reg into the source
> machine and starting the whole process again. Then I fine tuned it
> by installing the dedicated virt drivers (virtio, net, scsi) and it
> eventually worked.
Hang on there ... Using 'mergeide.reg' should *not* be necessary ...
I tried many reboots, and F8 > choose different debug/recovery options.
They all lead to windows beginning to boot then BSOD 0x0000007B.
What was the BSOD?
If you want the precise sub figures between parenthesis, I must admit I
haven't them anymore. Sorry.
Google is full of answers leading towards the use of mergeide.reg, and
my former experience with its use was good, so I did not hesitate and
was right.
Does your answer above implies that amongst the tons of things
libguestfs is doing to the FS, it also manipulate the registry in order
to do the same changes that mergeide.reg does?
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5:27 a.m.
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On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 01:12:06AM +0100, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
Le 22/11/2014 12:14, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit :
>On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:41:54AM +0100, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
>>When completed, the import into oVirt went fine, but booting lead to
>>a BSOD, which I corrected by merging mergeide.reg into the source
>>machine and starting the whole process again. Then I fine tuned it
>>by installing the dedicated virt drivers (virtio, net, scsi) and it
>>eventually worked.
>
>Hang on there ... Using 'mergeide.reg' should *not* be necessary ...
I tried many reboots, and F8 > choose different debug/recovery options.
They all lead to windows beginning to boot then BSOD 0x0000007B.
>
>What was the BSOD?
If you want the precise sub figures between parenthesis, I must
admit I haven't them anymore. Sorry.
Google is full of answers leading towards the use of mergeide.reg,
and my former experience with its use was good, so I did not
hesitate and was right.
Does your answer above implies that amongst the tons of things
libguestfs is doing to the FS, it also manipulate the registry in
order to do the same changes that mergeide.reg does?
Depending on circumstances, it should have installed virtio drivers
and enabled them, so 'mergeide' is not necessary. As always I would
need to see the complete virt-v2v -v -x output, & the exact details of
how you booted the VM in oVirt to be sure.
Rich.
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