backing up the guest

Discussion in 'Windows Guest OS Discussion' started by Danorske, Oct 20, 2007.

  1. Danorske

    Danorske Member

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    HI,
    I have Suse 10.3 Host. with Win xp as guest. I had all this running great on the old Suse 10.2 I want to use the registered guest that was on 10.2 on the 10.3 Is it possible to run a registered version of Win xp on a fresh install of Suse. Or do I have to re register with M$?

    Thanks,
    Ron
     
  2. Xenos

    Xenos Parallels Team

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    Hello Danorske,

    We'd advise to duplicate your VM folders and save them on any data storage. Then run your Parallels Workstation on the fresh install of Suse. We can't predict the Windows activation behavior now. Please give us the feedback.

    Best regards,
    Xenos
     
    Last edited: Oct 30, 2007
  3. Danorske

    Danorske Member

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    Hi Xenos,
    Thanks for the answer.
    No Joy, I did that. Which is way I posted about any backup. It will start the xp boot then go to the check disk screen come up with a bunt of bad files which it truncates.??? then starts over into a continuous reboot again.
    Thanks again,
    Ron
     
  4. Xenos

    Xenos Parallels Team

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    Danorske, try to reinstall Parallels Workstation. Follow the instructions of Parallels Workstation User Guide.

    Best regards,
    Xenos
     
  5. Danorske

    Danorske Member

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    Did reinstall, still no joy.
    Ron
     
  6. Xenos

    Xenos Parallels Team

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    Ron, could you run in Terminal ls -la from the folder with .hdd and send us the output, please?

    Best regards,
    Xenos
     
    Last edited: Nov 12, 2007
  7. Danorske

    Danorske Member

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    Xenos, Thanks for helping. here is the results. [this is from an newly installed winxp not registered yet with MS.
    danorske@SuSe10-3:~> cd /home/danorske/parallels-vm/winxp
    danorske@SuSe10-3:~/parallels-vm/winxp> ls -la
    total 5100656
    drwxr-xr-x 2 danorske users 4096 2007-11-03 20:27 .
    drwxr-xr-x 3 danorske users 4096 2007-11-01 16:24 ..
    -rw-r--r-- 1 danorske users 5217924608 2007-11-03 20:37 winxp.hdd
    -rw-r--r-- 1 danorske users 1841 2007-10-20 19:58 winxp.pvs
    -rw-r--r-- 1 danorske users 4 2007-11-03 20:27 .winxp.pvs.lock
    danorske@SuSe10-3:~/parallels-vm/winxp>
     
  8. Xenos

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  9. Danorske

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    Thanks xenos.
    I tried to put the registered xp back but I think I got upset and deleted it. So I guess I'll have to register this copy. And reinstall all the programs that I had on the original vm.

    Ron
     

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