Diego D'Angelo schrieb:
>> No. Simply because you didn't tell anyone what error you get. Do you get
>> a bluescreen? Or an early boot failure (can happen if geometry in VBox
>> is detected differently than what VMware used)? We need the exact
>> message (or the fact that you don't get any) you see on the screen.
>> Without facts we cannot help.
>>
> 
> The error is (spanish) at first screen after show the bios
> 
> Error de lectura de disco
> Presione Ctrl+Alt+Supr para reiniciar

Thanks. That is clear, even without a basic knowledge of Spanish.

> In this case should be a different geometry?

This is exactly the expected symptom of a geometry problem. The question
now is - what is the geometry used by VMware.

What kind of VMDK file did you create? Because some variants have an 
external textual image description (in others that's embedded in the 
header). If you have a .vmdk file which is just a few hundred bytes, 
then this contains at least some information I need. Please send it to 
me as an attachment. If your .vmdk file is bigger, try loading it into a 
text editor that doesn't freak out on binary data (wordpad is quite 
reasonable, as many editors on Linux). All I need is that patch of 
readable text starting with "# Disk DescriptorFile". Delete everything 
before and after the readable text. I don't need the binary stuff.

However this might not be enough. The trouble is that I don't have a 
good idea how to find out what precise geometry is in use by the windows 
guest. Windows doesn't show such information anywhere AFAIK (someone 
correct me if I'm wrong). The only way to get the information I need I 
know is booting some linux live CD such as Knoppix in that VM (with the 
hard disk still attached) - in VMware server. I need the output of the 
commands "hdparm -i /dev/hda" and "fdisk -l /dev/hda". Again, the output 
is only useful if this is done with VMware server.

> is there a solution?

Certainly, but it doesn't exist right now. Need to find out what we do 
slightly different than VMware.

-- 
Dr. Klaus Espenlaub     innotek GmbH, http://www.innotek.de

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