On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 08:03:04AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > Cons 2: Converting the VirtualBox vdi disk to "raw" and using it as DomU > disk hasn't worked. It just leads to "blue screen of death". (A fresh > installation of WinXP works, but my constraint is to carry the node locked > software as explained above.) >
This *may* be just a simple case of the disk geometry not matching. The XP boot loader process is very tightly tied to the cylinder/track/head numbers and it will BSOD if they are perceived to have changed. Try checking the disk geometry under virtualbox and seeing if there is a way of exactly replicating that geometry in the DomU (sorry, I am not a xen expert so I cannot give guidance on how this can be done...) A raw disk image should just work, there is nothing special about the file. I recently did a recovery on an unbootable domU by mapping the root disk image as a device on Dom0 and doing the lvm incantations to get it under lvm control - I was then able to mount the domu file system on dom0 and repair it. -- Brett Lymn Let go, or be dragged - Zen proverb.
