<div dir="ltr">Good stuff to know. Thank you!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Sylvain Bauza <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sylvain.bauza@digimind.com" target="_blank">sylvain.bauza@digimind.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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    <div>Hi Joe,<br>
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      Indeed. My SQLServer 2K instances are running fine and I'm able to
      snaphot live. <br>
      The main issue was with the IIS6.0/ASP2.0 instances. I had very
      hard time trying to understand the root cause, it took 3 weeks of
      long pain by testing any combination.<br>
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      -Sylvain<br>
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      Le 02/04/2013 00:08, Joe Topjian a écrit :<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi Sylvain,
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        <div>Were you running any specific services on Windows
          to cause this (such as Exchange or SQL Server)? I've never run
          into this issue myself, although the Windows instances I've
          run were more for desktop-related tasks.</div>
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        <div>Thanks,</div>
        <div>Joe</div>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:42 AM,
            Sylvain Bauza <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sylvain.bauza@digimind.com" target="_blank">sylvain.bauza@digimind.com</a>></span>
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                <div>Indeed.<br>
                  FYI, I had various issues with Windows 2003R2 over KVM
                  (libvirtified). The most painful one was the fact that
                  for some reason, my Windows dlls were corrupt and
                  Windows was crashing after 6h or 12h running.<br>
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                  After a hard period, I found why : when you perform a
                  snapshot, it's very important to make sure the disks
                  are synced, which is *not the case* with the default
                  virtio driver settings. As a result, when trying to
                  hot snapshot a Windows instance, the image was
                  corrupt.<br>
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                  The only solution I found was to either stop the
                  instance and do the snapshot; or disable the
                  writecache in Windows.<br>
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                  -Sylvain<br>
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                  Le 28/03/2013 21:42, Steven Barnabas a écrit :<br>
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                    <blockquote type="cite"> Ahh nevermind, I see that I
                      need to create a windows image with Virtio drivers
                      installed.
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                      <div>Thank you.</div>
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                          <div>Steven Barnabas<br>
                            Network Engineer <br>
                            Front Porch, Inc.<br>
                            <a href="tel:209-288-5580" value="+12092885580" target="_blank">209-288-5580</a><br>
                            <a href="tel:209-652-7733" value="+12096527733" target="_blank">209-652-7733</a>
                            mobile<br>
                            <a href="http://www.frontporch.com/" target="_blank">www.frontporch.com</a></div>
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                          <div>On Mar 28, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Steven
                            Barnabas <<a href="mailto:sbarnabas@frontporch.com" target="_blank">sbarnabas@frontporch.com</a>>

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                              Success!!!!   I have launched my Windows
                              ISO instance with a volume attatched.
                               Thank you very much for all you're help.
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                              <div>Just 1 more quick question.  When I
                                am VNC'ing into the image to install
                                windows onto the volume, it is trying to
                                boot from the actual volume, then
                                network, then floppy.  It never launches
                                the ISO. Since there is no OS installed
                                yet on the volume, there is no bootable
                                disc.  Is there a way of making it
                                launch the ISO and start the
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                              <div>Thank you very much.</div>
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                                  <div>Steven Barnabas<br>
                                    Network Engineer <br>
                                    Front Porch, Inc.<br>
                                    <a href="tel:209-288-5580" value="+12092885580" target="_blank">209-288-5580</a><br>
                                    <a href="tel:209-652-7733" value="+12096527733" target="_blank">209-652-7733</a>
                                    mobile<br>
                                    <a href="http://www.frontporch.com/" target="_blank">www.frontporch.com</a></div>
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                                  <div>On Mar 26, 2013, at 2:08 AM,
                                    Sylvain Bauza <<a href="mailto:sylvain.bauza@digimind.com" target="_blank">sylvain.bauza@digimind.com</a>>

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