Re: Migration route from Parallels on Mac for Windows images?

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On Jun 28, 2013, at 3:39 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Il 28/06/2013 03:01, Ken Roberts ha scritto:
>>>> More details on "not bootable" would be nice. Do you get a blue screen? Seabios screen? You may need to prep the image before you convert it (google mergeide).
>> 
>> Not sure if you support screenshots on the list, so I'm typing it below the post.
>> 
>> The only configured device is the hard disk, it is INSTANTLY showing Boot failed: not a bootable disk.
> 
> If you attach one of your Windows images to one of the Linux VMs and run
> the Linux VM on Parallels, what does "file -s" say if you pass it the
> Windows disk?

# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 68.7 GB, 68719730688 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8354 cylinders, total 134218224 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00010001

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *          63   134190944    67095441    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT


# file -s /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb: x86 boot sector, Microsoft Windows XP MBR, Serial 0x10001; partition 1: ID=0x7, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 134190882 sectors, code offset 0xc0

# file -s /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS    ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 63, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80)


> And what does "file" say (on the host) about the same Windows image
> after conversion to raw?

$file -s popeye-c-raw.img 
popeye-c-raw.img: data


> Also, can you do
> 
> dd if=/path/to/windows-image.raw bs=512 count=1 | od -tx1
> 
> (of course you have to replace /path/to/windows-image.raw) and include
> the output?

$dd if=popeye-c-raw.img bs=512 count=1  | od -tx1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000139388 s, 3.7 MB/s
0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
*
0001000

> Paolo


Thanks for the help.

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