
Windows XP / 2000 / NT (buslogic and vmscsi)**įind a working VM installed with the same OS. Restart the source machine to complete installation. Right-click vmscsi.inf and click Install. To copy the appropriate disk controller driver from a working virtual machine with a Windows guest operating system:ĭownload the VMware SCSI Disk Controller driver diskette here.Ĭopy the contents of the floppy either by mounting it or extracting the files Injecting SCSI controller device drivers into Windowsīefore you convert the virtual machine you should perform the following on the source OS. This brought me to this KB article on VMware’s site - which provided this solution STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICEĪnd of course I could not boot the converted machine.The VM - is there so you power on the VM - and BAM! Blue Screen!!! Yey! - But - the conversion process - reported as failed somewhere between 97-99%. You let the process run - and anything from 45minutes to hours later - you have a new VM registered in you virtual infrastructure. You start the Convert process, either using Converter Standalone - or the Guided consolation plug-in.

you have a Windows 2000 SP6 Server running a customized app. Take into account the following scenario. So now that we have that out the way - P2V’ing a Windows 2000 Operating System is not always as straight forward as a the other operating systems. P2V a machine - who does not want to get rid of all their physical machines to get the rid of the old hardware? If so raise you hand!
