How do I migrate my existing XP partition to an Virtual PC image?
Saturday, October 21, 2006 by thomassen | Discussion: Personal Computing
I'm now using Vista full time. But I'm not fully ready to completely get rid of my XP partition. I've just started looking in to virtual machines. I got Virtual PC 2007 and VMWare. What I'm wondering is how I can convert an existing partition to a virtual machine?
thomassen
Reply #2 Saturday, October 21, 2006 3:36 PM
Reply #2 Saturday, October 21, 2006 3:36 PM
Right. I'll have a look into that. Can anyone recommend a free image tool? As this is something I'll only do once, most likely, I'm not that keen on shelling out much money.
Phoon
Reply #3 Saturday, October 21, 2006 6:35 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, October 21, 2006 6:35 PM
Coincidence...
VMWare has a product called VMWare converter in beta testing right now.
WWW Link
I don't know if a home user can get it, but it can't hurt to try.
I've used it and it works great.
I've migrated some pretty critical systems with their P2V Assistant product and I have to assume this product will be better still.
Good luck!
VMWare has a product called VMWare converter in beta testing right now.
WWW Link
I don't know if a home user can get it, but it can't hurt to try.
I've used it and it works great.
I've migrated some pretty critical systems with their P2V Assistant product and I have to assume this product will be better still.
Good luck!
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Reply #1 Saturday, October 21, 2006 1:16 PM