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Citrix Xenconvert failed with Failed to discover 1 of 2 volumes on the destination disk! or Enable Automount on windows server Enterprise edition and run Disk Management once to take effect

Today i should convert a machine with XenConvert to XenServer, but it come with these errors:

Failed to discover 1 of 2 volumes on the destination disk!
Enable Automount on windows server Enterprise edition and run Disk Management once to take effect

What i did to fix it was:

First enable automount

C:\> DiskPart
DISKPART> automount enable
DISKPART> exit

If it still not working try this:

  1. Close XenConvert.
  2. Open a command window.
  3. Change to the XenConvert installation folder
  4. Mount the VHD:
    cvhdmount -p 1 <VHD file path>
  5. Open Windows Disk Management, then wait for the disk to appear online in Windows Disk Management, maybe you need to rescan
  6. Verify that the volumes are accessible
  7. Dismount the VHD
    cvhdmount -e 1
  8. Last thing to is editing XenConvert.ini file in c:\program files\citrix\xenconvert\xenconvert.ini
    And put this under [Parameters]
    VolumeDiscoveryTimeoutAsSeconds=120

Then try run XenConvert again.

Stop error 0xc0000225 on P2V’d Windows 2008 R2

I have P2V a windows 2008 R2, from Xenserver to vmware.

But after the first good boot, it come with: Status: 0xc0000225, Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.

The machine will startup just fine one time, first i thougt it was the uninstall of XenServer tools?.
So i try to remove the Xenserver tools, before the P2V, but again i godt 0xC000225 error again.

I then google it, and found this post: http://web2.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=31980, and the fix was pretty simple:

  • Mount the Windows 2008 R2DVD in VMware and boot the virtual machine, with CDRom boot at the first boot device.
  • Hit any key to boot from the CDRrom.
  • At the first screen of the installation (Language Selection), you can hit Shift-F10 to get a command prompt.
  • Type Regedit at the command prompt.
  • Loaded hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (which mounts as a sub-hive)
    1. Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    2. File > Load Hive
    3. Select < c: > \Windows\System32\config\system (name it something like “qwerty”)
  • Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\qwerty\ControlSet001\Services\intelide
  • Change the data for value “Start” from “3” to “0”.
  • File > Unload Hive.
  • Exit regedit.
  • Reboot the VM.

 

Xencenter / Xenserver This operation cannot be performed because the specified VDI could not be found on the storage substrate

Today i got this when i was trying to start a VDI on my Xenceter.

This operation cannot be performed because the specified VDI could not be found on the storage substrate

This was because of that i have a CDrom mounted on a CIFS shares that isn’t available anymore, after remove the ISO, the VDI start perfects again.

 

Failed to import the OVF Package. Xenserver / Xenconvert

I have a problem converting a VHD to a virtual machine to an Xenserver.
When lokking at the logs i got this: Failed to import the OVF Package.

It was because my Default Storage was fill.
When change the Default storage at my XenCenter it was working fine again.

First change the show to “Folder View”

Select Types.


Then select a storage ether under Remote Storage Repositories or Local Storage Repositories.
Right click on it and set it as default.