Hi All,
I am new to VMWare server, so bare with me if I sound a bit nooby.
I have a server running Windows 2003 SE 32 bit. I used Windows WMware converter Standalone to create a VM from the physical machine. I selected VMware Servwer 2.x as the target environment. Then I disconnected the drives for the Windows server, put in a new one and installed RH Linux 64bit OS, and the VMware Server 64 bit for it. I got it all up and running without any issues.
However, the Windows VM won't start, throwing out the error shown on the attached PDF file. It is a startup blue screen warning of a serious error and that it is shutting down to avoid damage to the Windows system. It suggests reviewing the hard drive setup. It gets as far as throwing up the very first Windows 2003 Server logo witrh the little activity bar cycling about twice before the blue screen appears.
Is this a reasonable thing to expect to be able to do? That is, to "clone" a Windows system using the Windows version of WMWare Converter Standalone, and copy the resulting files to a Linux system running VMware server? The hardware is the same hardware that the "real" Windows server runs on. The .VMX file is alos attached.
Hardware: Dell SC1420, Dual Core Xeon, 3Mhz, 4GB RAM, 1TB single SATA drive (under the Linux config), two SATA drives (under the Windows Server Config).
Thanks in advance for any advice for what I am trying.
Bill