2009/5/20 Tim Dobson <li...@tdobson.net>: > Michael Holloway wrote: >> Recently, I spent a lot of time trying to find a decent (easy) way to do >> it, and VMWare's P2V (free) is by far the easiest. > > I'll take a look at it. > >> Other ways are painfully slow(er) and complicated. > > hmmm. > >> It worked fine fir Vista64, but for use in VMWare server/workstation. >> You can probably use qemu to convert the disk to Virtualbox. > > That's what I was thinking. I have a feeling virtualbox supports the > vmware HD format :-/ I'm fairly sure qemu does.
IIRC, yes to both feelings. qemu definitely does. >> Bad news, windows needs reactivation. Good luck with that. > > Ah yes, this did occur to me. Sounds like a complete nightmare. :-/ > > Still probably the best solution. My boss's laptop is blue screening on > average twice a day, which obviously, isn't good. > > Really, if I can get him off Vista on a day to day basis, I suspect > that the whole angle the business will take will start to change. > > Thanks for the advice everyone! > Clonezilla should also do this, for a free & libre solution. Take a backup of the physical partition, and restore it into a VM. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
