Good morning dear friends, companion of the community .. I have a doubt and I will explain to you I hope you understand me. forgive me my english since I use a translator because I speak spanish.
the problem is the following, I have a hard drive that used in my old computer is an amd. now portable use. there is some way to emulate the system of windows 7 in the virtual box but with the system that I already have in the hard disk. I mean it works for me as if I had my old computer with all my files and settings? I appreciate your collaboration with respect. happy day god bless you
Doubt about using physical hard drive with W7
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Re: Doubt about using physical hard drive with W7
What you need to do is called "Physical-to-Virtual" (or P2V), which is to take a Physical computer and make a Virtual Machine from it.Einkenberry wrote: there is some way to emulate the system of windows 7 in the virtual box but with the system that I already have in the hard disk. I mean it works for me as if I had my old computer with all my files and settings?
- Use Disk2VHD, a Microsoft tool, to save your physical disk in the VHD format.
- Convert the VHD to VDI, which is native to VirtualBox. You can either read ch 8.24. VBoxManage clonemedium, or use the nice CloneVDI utility to do so.
- Create a new VM as close to the original as possible. When prompted for a disk, choose the VDI you just created.
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