Question : XenServer VM 2008 SP2 Blue Screen when sysprep is run on it

Hi,

I have a large Xenserver pool and many VMs. I have a problem with a duplicate I have made of a VM.  When UI run sysprep on it, following the first phase of sysprep on its first re-boot it blue screens and cannot be repaired. The blue screen massage is 0x0000007b and all the posts on how to fix it does not fix the issue.

I remember seeing somewhere that you cannot sysprep a server that has been upgraded from windows server 2003, but I cannot find anything about that and how to resolve the issue so it can be syspreped.  This VM was in fact upgraded from server 2003 to server 2008.

As we all know newsid will not run on server 2008, but if there is any way to make it run that would also be a help.  Also if there is any other tools that will generate a new sid that would also help.

If anyone has seen this sort of this and has a possible solution, that would help.

Some things I have gone through and the skipping sysprep issue;

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx
http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2010/04/01/To+sysprep+or+not+to+sysprep

When the VM is running without running sysprep, it seems to work but the administrator keeps being removed from the administrators group

Has anyone seen a newsid replacement that works with 2008 server?

Peter

Answer : XenServer VM 2008 SP2 Blue Screen when sysprep is run on it

hi peter,

you cannot sysprep a image that has been upgraded from one version to another or from one edition to another.

NewSID can run on a windows 2008 image but the outcome might not be really helpful. And incase of systems that are upgraded the same corrupts the image and results in bluescreen.

Though there are lot of articles to fix BSOD errors the same may not be very helpful in case of images that have BSOD during sysprep.

The best way left is to have a fresh OS template created for multiple deployments

regards
bhanu