Migrating a Physical Computer to a Virtual Machine October 4, 2006
Posted by Hank Wallace in Virtualization.trackback
Ben Armstrong (a Program Manager on the Virtual machine team at Microsoft) writes about migrating to a virtual machine.
Using Virtual PC for computer migration
Tips for migrating a physical computer to a virtual machine (part 1)
Tips for migrating a physical computer to a virtual machine (part 2)
Tips for migrating a physical computer to a virtual machine (part 3)
Tips for migrating a physical computer to a virtual machine (part 4)
I just received a new hard drive for my laptop and will be installing Windows Vista on it. I will use Virtual PC to create a backup of my current Windows XP install. This will allow me to run Vista while still having access to my old setup. Problem solved!
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Can you take a vpc image and automatically convert it to a hard disk? It would be great to go backwards with it.
Not that I know of.
How do I do this:
Use the Virtual Hard Disk wizard to create a linked virtual hard disk pointing to the hard disk from the old computer.
I tried but I can’t figure it out.
Start Virtual PC and there is “File” / “Virtual Disk Wizard” menu item. The wizard will lead you through the steps required.
>Can you take a vpc image and automatically convert it to a hard disk? >It would be great to go backwards with it.
Yes you can, but a tool (like Ghost). It’s not “direct”, but at least it’s possible to do it!
take a look at the software winimage.
http://www.winimage.com
it claims that is allows VHD convert back to physical drive
I have test out physical to VHD using winimage
good luck