Tips for migrating a physical computer to a virtual machine (part 1)

re: Tips for migrating a physical computer to a virtual machine (part 1)

Harry — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:06:00 GMT

What would be an easy way to image a physical system, which than can be used by Virutal PC or Virtual Server?

re: Tips for migrating a physical computer to a virtual machine (part 1)

Virtual PC Guy — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:08:00 GMT

Check out this post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/11/22/268225.aspx

Cheers,
Ben

re: Tips for migrating a physical computer to a virtual machine (part 1)

andrew — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:20:00 GMT

this all sounds good. I have one question. Can you migrate Virtual to physical

re: Tips for migrating a physical computer to a virtual machine (part 1)

Robert Moir — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:35:00 GMT

Andrew,
You can indeed migrate from virtual to physical, its much like the steps Ben outlines here for physical --> virtual.

However (you knew that was coming right?) it has the same considerations and issues as the migration the other way or indeed from one physical machine to another when the two have dissimilar hardware.

Rob Moir

re: Tips for migrating a physical computer to a virtual machine (part 1)

Virtual PC Guy — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:28:00 GMT

Hi Andrew,

One more tip for doing Physical --> virtual is that you should uninstall the virtual machine additions before you attempt to do this.

Cheers,
Ben