====== Migrate from esxi 4.1 (Windows server 2003) ====== **In windows on esxi:** * Remove vmware-tools from guest OS (by Control Panel) and reboot * Enable boot from IDE executing this mergeide.reg (see [[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082/en-us|Microsoft KB]]) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\primary_ide_channel] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="atapi" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\secondary_ide_channel] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="atapi" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\*pnp0600] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="atapi" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\*azt0502] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="atapi" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\gendisk] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="disk" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#cc_0101] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_0e11&dev_ae33] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1039&dev_0601] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1039&dev_5513] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1042&dev_1000] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_105a&dev_4d33] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1095&dev_0640] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1095&dev_0646] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1095&dev_0646&REV_05] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1095&dev_0646&REV_07] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1095&dev_0648] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1095&dev_0649] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1097&dev_0038] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_10ad&dev_0001] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_10ad&dev_0150] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_10b9&dev_5215] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_10b9&dev_5219] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_10b9&dev_5229] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="pciide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1106&dev_0571] "Service"="pciide" "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_8086&dev_1222] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="intelide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_8086&dev_1230] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="intelide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_8086&dev_2411] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="intelide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_8086&dev_2421] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="intelide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_8086&dev_7010] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="intelide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_8086&dev_7111] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="intelide" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_8086&dev_7199] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="intelide" ;Add driver for Atapi (requires Atapi.sys in Drivers directory) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi] "ErrorControl"=dword:00000001 "Group"="SCSI miniport" "Start"=dword:00000000 "Tag"=dword:00000019 "Type"=dword:00000001 "DisplayName"="Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller" "ImagePath"=hex(2):53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,\ 52,00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,61,00,74,00,61,00,70,00,69,00,2e,\ 00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00 ;Add driver for intelide (requires intelide.sys in drivers directory) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\IntelIde] "ErrorControl"=dword:00000001 "Group"="System Bus Extender" "Start"=dword:00000000 "Tag"=dword:00000004 "Type"=dword:00000001 "ImagePath"=hex(2):53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,\ 52,00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,69,00,6e,00,74,00,65,00,6c,00,69,\ 00,64,00,65,00,2e,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00 ;Add driver for Pciide (requires Pciide.sys and Pciidex.sys in Drivers directory) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PCIIde] "ErrorControl"=dword:00000001 "Group"="System Bus Extender" "Start"=dword:00000000 "Tag"=dword:00000003 "Type"=dword:00000001 "ImagePath"=hex(2):53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,\ 52,00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,70,00,63,00,69,00,69,00,64,00,65,\ 00,2e,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00 * shutdown windows os guest * Create virtual machine flat disk backup on esxi hypervisor. E.g. by ghettoVCB script. **On KVM server** * Copy virtual flat disk from esxi to local disk. # cd /vmware/ # mkdir Wserver # cd Wserver/ # scp root@EsxiHypervisor.my.org:/vmfs/volumes/Backup/Wserver/Wserver-2012-09-02_12-00-01/Wserver-flat.vmdk ./ * Verify it is a flat disk: #file Wserver-flat.vmdk /vmware/Wserver/Wserver-flat.vmdk: x86 boot sector... * Create virtual disk (LVM based) #ls -l Wserver-flat.vmdk -rw------- 1 root root 8589934592 Sep 3 13:49 /vmware/Wserver/Wserver-flat.vmdk #lvcreate -L 8589934592B -n wserver iscsi2 #dd if=Wserver-flat.vmdk | pv -s 8G | dd of=/dev/iscsi2/wserver * Define new virtual machine using this virtual disk as IDE, a dummy disk as VirtIO, a CD ISO from [[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers|KVM project wiki downloads]] and network card as VirtIO. * Start virtual machine * Install requested drivers from CD * Shutdown * Change main virtual disk to VirtIO and remove dummy disk * Start virtual machine * TCP/IP parameters for best performance ([[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/kvmnet/registry]]) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AFD\Parameters] "DefaultSendWindow"=dword:00100000 "DefaultReceiveWindow"=dword:00100000 "FastSendDatagramThreshold"=dword:00004000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters] "Tcp1323Opts"=dword:00000001 "TcpWindowSize"=dword:00100000 [[hypervisor:exp1|Upgrade LIBVIRT to 1.0.0 compiled (experimental)]] ⇒ ⇐ [[hypervisor:fromesxi|Migrate from esxi 4.1]] ⇑ [[hypervisor:start|Hypervisor]]