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Manually installing Windows to your OVH Dedi


Myatu
10-02-2013, 09:17
Hmm. Provided you have all the right drivers - most importantly networking - then it should be possible with this or something like Ghost. Then install Linux on a tiny (1 GB) partition on the host machine, leaving the remainder of the disk for Windows. Boot into Linux, use it to dump Windows on the unused partition, setup Grub to boot from that Windows partition instead of the Linux partition and cross your fingers. Well, that's the theory at least!

deed02392
09-02-2013, 12:28
Really I'm just posting this because I had the idea this morning as I woke up and wanted to share it so that someone with more time could try it there were lots of people in the other thread who were keen to find this solution and this method was not mentioned, but I have a feeling this is what the guy selling his services is doing.

I just thought it would be nice if the community could figure out the way and make it public so we can enjoy the solution for free instead of that guy sitting on it for months, probably not even making much money but just making every penny he can instead of sharing.

Sharing is caring!

raxxeh
09-02-2013, 12:13
Quote Originally Posted by deed02392
It seems likely that following this guide, tailored for whatever OVH specific dedi you have, would be a highly workable solution. This would allow you to configure everything with even finer grain control than a mere default answer file as you can much more easily add in applications or even set up a Linux bootable partition in your image for immediate rescue options.

https://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/doc/V2P_TechNote.pdf
I haven't tried (or read the pdf yet) but if you do figure out a way, I would be heavily interested in knowing the details and any snags you hit

deed02392
09-02-2013, 10:41
It seems likely that following this guide, tailored for whatever OVH specific dedi you have, would be a highly workable solution. This would allow you to configure everything with even finer grain control than a mere default answer file as you can much more easily add in applications or even set up a Linux bootable partition in your image for immediate rescue options.

https://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/doc/V2P_TechNote.pdf

deed02392
09-02-2013, 10:31
Hi, I'm investigating a solution for installing my own version of Windows to my OVH box, with my own license, in line with this thread: http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3091

Just throwing ideas about at this stage, has anyone ever managed to successfully perform a VMWare V2P migration to an OVH server before?