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From: Bo Berglund on 20 Jan 2010 12:17
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:39:02 +0100, "Christian Barmala"
<christian.barmala(a)gmx.net> wrote:

>Hi Bo,
>
>"Bo Berglund" <boberglund(a)myotherhome.sec> wrote:
>> The disk2vhd has an option to "Fix up HAL for VirtualPC
>
>Where is this option hidden? I didn't find any options at all? The command
>line syntax is "disk2vhd <drive(s)> <VHD file>" and the GUI has in input
>field for the VHD-file and checkboxes for the available drives. I didn't
>even find a "version" command to check if I'm using an outdated version of
>disk2vhd.

I downloaded the very latest version yesterday after seeing the
reference here. The program says Disk2Vhd v1.4 right on top of its gui
window.
Above the selection box for the VHD filename is the checkbox named
"Fix up HAL for VirtualPC".

I assume this is their way of handling the different hardware inside
the guest of VPC2007.

>A colleague intends to
>- shrink the physical disk with partition magic,

Why not test disk2vhd 1.4 with the HAL checkbox active at this point?
disk2vhd can be set to include only the volume you check into the VHD
(at least this is what I believe) so it should now be able to make a
VHD which is adapted for use with VPC2007 directly.

>- boot from the Acronis CD and create an image of the shrunken partition,
>- create an empty VM,
>- boot the VM with the Acronis CD and
>- restore from the Acronis tib-file

This would require the "Universal Restore" option in Acronis to have
any success at all of working.

>
>Yet another idea would be to convert the tib file into a vhd. The latest
>Acronis version can do this.

VHD format is not enaough, you need to fix up the hardware differences
as well....


--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)
From: Bo Berglund on 20 Jan 2010 12:31
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:15:07 +0100, Bo Berglund
<boberglund(a)myotherhome.sec> wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:25:11 +0100, "Peter D. J�rgensen"
><pdj1974(a)hotKILLSPAMMERSmail.com> wrote:
>

>2) VMWare Converter 4
>Unlike the Microsoft solution, this worked right away! I just attached
>the created virtual machine to my VMWare Workstation 7 and fired it up
>successfully.
>Before I did so I changed networking to be "host only" so the guest
>would not appear on the network. The reason for this is that the
>source PC is still on the network and is a domain attached PC so if I
>allow the clone to also appear it will cause grief in Active
>Directory.
>But as a side effect of this the guest is not on line to the Internet
>and when it starts up it requires activation, which is not possible
>right now. So I had to shut it down. Will activate tonight when I am
>back home and can let it reach the internet without problems with AD
>at work.

Now back home and could bridge the guest network adapter to my main
NIC and thus get an Internet connection to the guest.
Windows activation popped up again and now I could enter the code and
activate successfully.

After installing VMWare Tools (new version for WorkStation 7) and
rebooting the guest it now looks perfectly OK!
And all of the USB stuff is retained too.
This will run on VMWare Player 3 (free software) just fine.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)
From: Christian Barmala on 24 Jan 2010 09:46
Hi Bo,

On 20.01.2010 18:17 "Bo Berglund" wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:39:02 +0100, Christian Barmala wrote:
>>On 19.01.2010 21:45 "Bo Berglund" wrote:
>>> The disk2vhd has an option to "Fix up HAL for VirtualPC
>>Where is this option hidden? I didn't find any options at all? I didn't
>>even find a "version info"
> I downloaded the very latest version yesterday. The program says Disk2Vhd
> v1.4 right on top of its gui window. Above the selection box for the VHD
> filename is the checkbox named "Fix up HAL for VirtualPC".
I meanwhile have v1.4 too and it did the trick!

Thank you,
Christian Barmala

From: Scott M. Scott on 1 Feb 2010 14:24
I downloaded the latest version and the option is not there for fixing the
Hal. Please give the url you used to download the tool.

Thanks.

"Bo Berglund" wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:39:02 +0100, "Christian Barmala"
> <christian.barmala(a)gmx.net> wrote:
>
> >Hi Bo,
> >
> >"Bo Berglund" <boberglund(a)myotherhome.sec> wrote:
> >> The disk2vhd has an option to "Fix up HAL for VirtualPC
> >
> >Where is this option hidden? I didn't find any options at all? The command
> >line syntax is "disk2vhd <drive(s)> <VHD file>" and the GUI has in input
> >field for the VHD-file and checkboxes for the available drives. I didn't
> >even find a "version" command to check if I'm using an outdated version of
> >disk2vhd.
>
> I downloaded the very latest version yesterday after seeing the
> reference here. The program says Disk2Vhd v1.4 right on top of its gui
> window.
> Above the selection box for the VHD filename is the checkbox named
> "Fix up HAL for VirtualPC".
>
> I assume this is their way of handling the different hardware inside
> the guest of VPC2007.
>
> >A colleague intends to
> >- shrink the physical disk with partition magic,
>
> Why not test disk2vhd 1.4 with the HAL checkbox active at this point?
> disk2vhd can be set to include only the volume you check into the VHD
> (at least this is what I believe) so it should now be able to make a
> VHD which is adapted for use with VPC2007 directly.
>
> >- boot from the Acronis CD and create an image of the shrunken partition,
> >- create an empty VM,
> >- boot the VM with the Acronis CD and
> >- restore from the Acronis tib-file
>
> This would require the "Universal Restore" option in Acronis to have
> any success at all of working.
>
> >
> >Yet another idea would be to convert the tib file into a vhd. The latest
> >Acronis version can do this.
>
> VHD format is not enaough, you need to fix up the hardware differences
> as well....
>
>
> --
>
> Bo Berglund (Sweden)
> .
>
From: Bo Berglund on 1 Feb 2010 17:32
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:24:03 -0800, Scott M. <Scott
M.(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I downloaded the latest version and the option is not there for fixing the
>Hal. Please give the url you used to download the tool.
>
>
It's in the very first post on this thread:
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx)

Disk2Vhd v1.4 is the version and the screenshot on the download page
is misleading because it does not show the checkbox for HAL Fix-up,
which is immediately above the disk edit box.
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Bo Berglund (Sweden)
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