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  • 1.  BSOD on Source System during VM Image creation

    Posted Jul 29, 2011 07:20 PM

    Hi,

    I am using  VMWare vCenter 4.3.0 build 292238 to do a remote virtual system creation from a live machine.

    At about a minute into the process the source machine (old laptop with XP) gets a BSOD with a "Bad Pool Header" message.

    I am running Avira for antivirus.

    Attached are the logs.

    Any assistance would be appreciated as I have a couple other old machines to convert.

    Please let me know if any other information is needed to assist with troubleshooting.

    Thanks

    (please note I did run several other tries previous but did not have the vss service enabled on the source machine.)  The most recent attampt that failed with the BSOD was Task #10 begun around 15:12.



  • 2.  RE: BSOD on Source System during VM Image creation

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jul 30, 2011 02:53 PM

    Welcome to the Community

    Check out this paralel KB - http://kb.parallels.com/5062

    good luck



  • 3.  RE: BSOD on Source System during VM Image creation

    Posted Jul 31, 2011 12:04 AM

    Hi,

    Thank you for your suggestion.

    I did try it, but I still received the same BSOD.

    If it helps in troublehsooting, I have also tried disk2vhd and that is not successful either (although it simply errors out and does not cause a bsod).

    Would it be easier (is there a way) to create a virtual image (bootable os) of the disk when it is not in use?  I know there are tools to create virtual data disks from a slave drive.  I can easily power down the laptop, remove the drive, and attach it as a slave to another machine.

    Thanks again



  • 4.  RE: BSOD on Source System during VM Image creation

    Posted Jul 31, 2011 12:38 AM

    I have used Drivesnapshot http://drivesnapshot.de to clone a disk. The program is installed directly in the OS to be copied. Clone to an external location. You can mount the cloned image and the run converter against the mounted image.



  • 5.  RE: BSOD on Source System during VM Image creation

    Posted Jul 31, 2011 12:55 AM

    Thanks.

    That appears to be running ok.  I will post an update after it completes and I attempt the conversion.

    Thanks again



  • 6.  RE: BSOD on Source System during VM Image creation

    Posted Jul 31, 2011 01:09 AM

    Machines that have been around for a while tend to accumulate junk. I would uninstall as much of the junk as you can before converting.



  • 7.  RE: BSOD on Source System during VM Image creation

    Posted Jul 31, 2011 01:12 AM

    Do understand that you may run afoul of the Microsoft EULA if you install an OEM version of XP on anything other than the machine it was originally installed on.



  • 8.  RE: BSOD on Source System during VM Image creation

    Posted Jul 31, 2011 01:18 AM

    I wasn't thinking that would be an issue for XP?



  • 9.  RE: BSOD on Source System during VM Image creation

    Posted Jul 31, 2011 01:16 AM

    Funny you mention that.

    It's true, but also part of the reason I want to keep the machine around (it has some good utilities installed that I want to keep but don't necessarily want on my prime machine).

    I actually spent some time cleaning it up using ccleaner, unistalling old progs and doing a defrag.  Cleared about 1/4 of the disk up.

    Looks like the program will run the initial backup for a couple more hours.