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Hi Joe,

Indeed. My SQLServer 2K instances are running fine and I'm able to 
snaphot live.
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.

-Sylvain

Le 02/04/2013 00:08, Joe Topjian a écrit :
> Hi Sylvain,
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Sylvain Bauza 
> <sylvain.bauza at digimind.com <mailto:sylvain.bauza at digimind.com>> wrote:
>
>     Indeed.
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     The only solution I found was to either stop the instance and do
>     the snapshot; or disable the writecache in Windows.
>
>     -Sylvain
>
>     Le 28/03/2013 21:42, Steven Barnabas a écrit :
>>     Ahh nevermind, I see that I need to create a windows image with
>>     Virtio drivers installed.
>>
>>
>>     Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     Steven Barnabas
>>     Network Engineer
>>     Front Porch, Inc.
>>     209-288-5580 <tel:209-288-5580>
>>     209-652-7733 <tel:209-652-7733> mobile
>>     www.frontporch.com <http://www.frontporch.com/>
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Mar 28, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Steven Barnabas
>>     <sbarnabas at frontporch.com <mailto:sbarnabas at frontporch.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>     Success!!!!   I have launched my Windows ISO instance with a
>>>     volume attatched.  Thank you very much for all you're help.
>>>
>>>     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 installation?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Thank you very much.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Steven Barnabas
>>>     Network Engineer
>>>     Front Porch, Inc.
>>>     209-288-5580 <tel:209-288-5580>
>>>     209-652-7733 <tel:209-652-7733> mobile
>>>     www.frontporch.com <http://www.frontporch.com/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Mar 26, 2013, at 2:08 AM, Sylvain Bauza
>>>     <sylvain.bauza at digimind.com <mailto:sylvain.bauza at digimind.com>>
>>>     wrote:
>>>
>>>>     tgt-admin --show
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