Windows Server 2003 won’t boot after a P2V
Posted: December 6, 2011 Filed under: VMware, Windows | Tags: /burnmemory, boot.ini, burn memory, converter 5, p2v, p2v will not boot, physical to virtual, server 2003, vmware, vmware converter 5, Windows Leave a commentSo far, our Physical-to-Virtual migrations of Exchange 2003 on x86 Server 2003 Enterprise boxes have gone mostly smoothly – until this evening, that is. In the past, a failure soon after the P2V process started was resolved with a reboot or by disabling the TCP Offload Engine on the Broadcom NICs (this was easily accomplished with the cmd.exe command netsh int ip set chimney DISABLED).
This evening’s P2Vs were a bit more challenging.