Comments on: How to convert a physical server to a Citrix Xen virtual server (P2V)

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:42:17 +0000

Awesome, exactly what I was looking for!

By: Kara

Kara — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:01:08 +0000

Hi, hopefully you have a suggestion for me. Thanks for this article, there's not much info in regards to migrating a Linux server. What I'm having trouble with, is I don't see the option to "Convert an existing OS…"

After I choose the keyboard layout, I am sent directly to a page that warns installing XenServer will overwrite my hard drives and to back them up. I never have the option to convert. Any help will be appreciated!!

By: Karan

Karan — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:00:56 +0000

I converted a live server , Windows Server 2003 SBS, to import XenServer (It has enough resources HDD 1.2TB, 32GB) using XenConvert, done successfully. I install the XenConvert in the SBS live server, then run from SBS to transfer to Xen. Now, when I start the server 2003 in the XenServer, it produces a blue screen.

Can you please help me? How can I fix this issue?

By: robert

robert — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:02:14 +0000

Hi to everybody.

Does any of you have any error converting Windows 2008 from physical to virtual with XenServer Converter?

I can't start a conversion. Tried on both a Windows 2008 with domain and databases and on a simple 2008 standard. After a couple of minutes, it stops with errors.

Thank you for any answer.

Robert

By: zorrek@yahoo.com.au

zorrek@yahoo.com.au — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:46:47 +0000

This does not seem to work if the Linux server is installed on an mdadm raid.