[RFE] Almost impossible to get into safe mode or RHEL sea bios - virt-p2v

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • Almost impossible to get into safe mode or RHEL sea bios.
  • For migration: You need to hit F8 during boot and go into safe mode to get drivers right, and remove associations to none existent nics otherwise you can not allocate IP number to new nic created by RHEL. Windows server 2003 and 2008 does this to prevent IP conflicts.
  • However, by the time vnc or spice initializes it's too late to hit F8 windows is already booting. (need to be able to add delay before hard disk boot)
  • Only able to start vm paused, but this is almost too fast to catch it as well, takes a few tries.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0
  • Microsoft Exchange server 2003 64 bit
  • rhel-6.3-p2v.iso

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