Now the ‘fix’ was an old one from back in the day, when moving stuff around and things get goofed you can try to xcopy and permissions always get messed up or cheat, and just use another NT installation and format a floppy disk and copy the following system files to it: Yes even a type 7 for HPFS/NTFS it mounted find and the data is there. So to mount this under Linux (WSLv2 too!) we need to tell the loop driver the offsets, which is the start and size * 512 or: # mount -o loop,offset=32256,sizelimit=2097414144 USENET-AltaVista-flat.vmdk /mntĪnd all is good. USENET-AltaVista-flat.vmdk1 : start= 63, size= 4096512, type=7, bootableĪnd sure enough yeah it’s like a typical DOS disk with the start 63 sectors in. So first let’s verify the data: :/mnt/d/virtual/USENET-AltaVista# sfdisk -d USENET-AltaVista-flat.vmdk With really screwed up geometry that prevented both qemu and Hyper-V from mounting the raw converted disk images. Well after rsync‘ing my disks back, I converted them with qemu-img and got this weird error that my VMDK’s were not VMDK’s.
Naturally to start with I uninstall VMware Tools while running under ESXi and shut down the VMs. In some idea of ‘performance’ I had converted all the virtual disks to ‘flat’ VMDK’s and never thought twice about it as it worked, and all was well. But I need to do double+ duty at the moment and to make it easier than trying to get GPU passthru working, I’m just going with Hyper-V on the Windows 10 desktops that I have running.
So as a fan of old junk I still have some NT 4.0 stuff, and it’d been running on VMware for years, no issues everything being great. I had planned on making a cloud service, I’d bought a bunch of Xeon boards, and started the initial build of my cloud to shop around but then the world ended the following weekend. Before the c00f it made sense as I did a lot out of that office and was getting ready to do something fun and big. I had a fancy 1gig internet connection installed and I’m still under contract for a year. So due to recent economic events I’m having to consolidate all my VM’s back to the office I’m currently renting.
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