Ramblings on IT

Used this for the first time today, and ran into a small snag.

When doing a P2V migration with this utility, the image needs to have the proper IDE drivers to play nice with Hyper-V, otherwise you end up with a BSOD and a 0×0000007B STOP error.

The fix is to follow the advice of THIS POST on the SysInternals forums, which describes the steps to take per THIS Microsoft KB article.

So I followed the steps (relatively easy), ran the utility again, and Hyper-V worked like a charm. Removed a couple of things (like NVidia chipset and PCI audio drivers), but other than that it worked flawlessly.

Now I’ve got an XP Pro VM running on the same host as my SBS 2008 and 2003 member servers, and it runs better than any other machine I’ve got (including Win7 Ultimate), mainly because I run network apps reliant on wire speeds, and being local to the same host, the XP VM is running 10GigE.

I like.