[virt-tools-list] vm fails to boot, need to modify guest registry

[Kenny Armstrong]

Nevermind, just realized the error in the question.  Windows needs to 
boot in order to read anything from the registry, however we can't even 
get that far.

On 08/22/2011 10:15 AM, Kenny Armstrong wrote:
> I have two Windows 2003 VM's that have somehow had their two drive 
> letters switched.  They are both running on two separate hosts, the 
> only other commonality between them is that they are on the same domain.
>
> Each vm has two disks, a C: drive disk and a D: drive disk image.  
> However, Windows somehow borked the two and now either one won't 
> boot.  What appears to have happened is that the D: drive and C: drive 
> have swapped places, so Windows seems to think it needs to boot from 
> D: instead on both devices.
>
> I'm thinking of using virt-win-reg to try and modify the 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices and swap the drive letter 
> mappings back and then boot the vm's up again to see if it fixes it.  
> I have already created a copy of the disk image file in case I screw 
> this up.  What I need is help on the syntax for the actual command.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Kenny
>
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