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--- hypervisor:fromesxiws [2012/09/27 16:05]
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   * shutdown windows os guest
+  * Create virtual machine flat disk backup on esxi hypervisor. E.g. by ghettoVCB script.
+**On KVM server**
-Create virtual machine flat disk backup on esxi hypervisor.
+  * Copy virtual flat disk from esxi to local disk.
-E.g. by ghettoVCB script:
-Copy virtual flat disk from esxi to local disk.
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-Verify it is a flat disk:
+  * Verify it is a flat disk:
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-**For virtual machine LVM based:**
+  * Create virtual disk (LVM based)
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-Define new virtual machine using this virtual disk as IDE
+  * 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]])
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+<code text net.reg>
+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
+</code>
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-x ⇒
+[[hypervisor:exp1|Upgrade LIBVIRT to 1.0.0 compiled (experimental)]] ⇒
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