Greetings,
yesterday I ran the VMware Standalone Converter on a physical
WinXP-machine and generated a ~160 GB image file (vmdk).
Transferred this to my gentoo QEMU/KVM host with libvirtd on it.
app-emulation/libvirt-1.2.3 currently ...
app-emulation/qemu-2.0.0
When I create a VM with this image in it, it only hangs there saying
"Booting from hard disk" and generates CPU load on the host.
When I attach a Windows-iso to the VM to try to repair the boot
environment it also does not boot from the iso and hangs there!
A VM with the iso alone boots.
What could be wrong?
I even converted the vmdk to raw format, same behavior.
Permissions are OK, afaik (it wouldn't work at all then, right?)
I played with CPU, ACPI etc ...
Do I have to use a specific target system within VMware Converter?
I am out of ideas for now.
btw. the same KVM host runs a W2008R2-VM without problems ...
Thanks for any advice on this, Stefan