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From: Adrian C on 10 Mar 2010 09:55
Got an old WINDOWS computer box you want to virtualise, and pull it over
to your MAC?

Giveaway of the Day - Paragon Virtualization Manager 9.5 Personal (English)
<http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-virtualization-manager-2010-personal-english/>

"Paragon Virtualization Manager 9.5 Personal allows to convert current
Windows system to the formats of following virtual machines:
VMware Workstation
VMware Fusion
Sun VirtualBox
Microsoft Virtual PC"

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Adrian C
From: Chris Ridd on 10 Mar 2010 10:10
On 2010-03-10 14:55:44 +0000, Adrian C said:

> Got an old WINDOWS computer box you want to virtualise, and pull it
> over to your MAC?
>
> Giveaway of the Day - Paragon Virtualization Manager 9.5 Personal (English)
> <http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-virtualization-manager-2010-personal-english/>

"Paragon
>
> Virtualization Manager 9.5 Personal allows to convert current Windows
> system to the formats of following virtual machines:
> VMware Workstation
> VMware Fusion
> Sun VirtualBox
> Microsoft Virtual PC"

Hm, don't VMware and Virtualbox already come with perfectly good and
free tools to virtualize (p2v) a physical Windows box?
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Chris

From: Adrian C on 10 Mar 2010 10:31
On 10/03/2010 15:10, Chris Ridd wrote:

> Hm, don't VMware and Virtualbox already come with perfectly good and
> free tools to virtualize (p2v) a physical Windows box?

Haven't yet found then in VMware (Server).

The stuff seems to exist to build images from the virtual 'bare metal'
up, not back-up and recreate what's already there on a physical box.

Though could be me not looking hard enough, would be greatful for some
pointers :-)

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Adrian C
From: Chris Ridd on 10 Mar 2010 10:41
On 2010-03-10 15:31:49 +0000, Adrian C said:

> On 10/03/2010 15:10, Chris Ridd wrote:
>
>> Hm, don't VMware and Virtualbox already come with perfectly good and
>> free tools to virtualize (p2v) a physical Windows box?
>
> Haven't yet found then in VMware (Server).

They're often separate downloads. Searching vmware.com found
<http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/>. In Fusion's UI, it points
you at <http://www.vmware.com/go/pc2mac>, which seems to download some
Windows .exe.

> The stuff seems to exist to build images from the virtual 'bare metal'
> up, not back-up and recreate what's already there on a physical box.

No, virtualizing an existing box is quite a common task.

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Chris

From: Adrian C on 10 Mar 2010 11:04
On 10/03/2010 15:41, Chris Ridd wrote:
> On 2010-03-10 15:31:49 +0000, Adrian C said:
>
>> On 10/03/2010 15:10, Chris Ridd wrote:
>>
>>> Hm, don't VMware and Virtualbox already come with perfectly good and
>>> free tools to virtualize (p2v) a physical Windows box?
>>
>> Haven't yet found then in VMware (Server).
>
> They're often separate downloads. Searching vmware.com found
> <http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/>. In Fusion's UI, it points
> you at <http://www.vmware.com/go/pc2mac>, which seems to download some
> Windows .exe.
>
>> The stuff seems to exist to build images from the virtual 'bare metal'
>> up, not back-up and recreate what's already there on a physical box.
>
> No, virtualizing an existing box is quite a common task.
>

Whoops, thanks. :-)

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Adrian C
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