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[sean mooney <2017358@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  VM doesn't boot after qemu-img convert from VMDK to RAW/QCOW2

Status in OpenStack Compute (nova):
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I'm trying to migrate a Windows Server (2016/2019) VM from
  vSphere/VMWare to OpenStack (KVM-QEMU). I followed these instructions:
  https://platform9.com/docs/openstack/tutorials-migrate-windows-vm-
  vmware-kvm without success.

  After downloading the VMDK file vCenter/vSphere in an Ubuntu Server
  with GUI installed (a server used for this purpose), I used this
  command:

  
  ```
  ~# qemu-img convert -O qcow2 win2016-copy-flat.vmdk win2016.qcow2

  ~# qemu-img convert -O raw win2016-copy-flat.vmdk win2016.qcow2

  ```

  I tried with both formats, RAW and QCOW2, and after importing into my
  controller node that image with the next command:

  ```
  ~# openstack image create --insecure --container-format bare "win2016-raw" --disk-format raw --file /tmp/win2016.qcow2

  ~# openstack image create --insecure --container-format bare
  "win2016-qcow2" --disk-format qcow2 --file /tmp/win2016.qcow2

  ```

  
  Finally, I tested creating a new instance and I obtain this error message:

  Booting from Hard Disk...
  Boot failed: not a bootable disk

  No bootable device.

  
  (Exactly like this issue: https://github.com/cloudbase/windows-imaging-tools/issues/324)

  After googling a lot and a couple of days, I tried another way, to
  change the chipset of the image from i440fx to q35, also, enabling the
  boot menu and secure boot, like in this link:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1663212 following the
  documentation about the properties of images
  (https://docs.openstack.org/ocata/cli-reference/glance-property-
  keys.html).

  
  Then, my instance continues without booting, with a different message but with the same result, something link this: https://github.com/ipxe/pipxe/issues/14 and a similar screenshot of this thread https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/i-got-error-bdsdxe-failed-to-load-boot0001-when-i-boot-kali-linux-vm-via-uefi-firmware.82773/

  Also, I explored the possibility of the partition table being
  corrupted and I tried to repair it with `gdisk` command; with the same
  result. So, which other way can I test?

  Context, I have my services of OpenStack running over a Ubuntu Servers
  cluster with 3 nodes and 1 controller, deployed with kolla-ansible
  over docker to have high availability, and CEPH as storage, configured
  with rbd (rados) to work with Glance/Cinder.

  I have tested different Windows Server editions from scratch,
  installing the S.O. locally with KVM and VirtManager, then uploading
  the QCOW2 disk to OpenStack, and works fine, and other Linux
  distributions. But this specific scenario migrating with Windows
  Server from vSphere to OpenStack crashes on that point, with the
  bootable device.

  
  Thank you for reading and for your time.

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