I'm wondering what options there are to migrate an existing, physical installation to a guest OS. There are third-party, commercial products that can do this sort of thing and push the content directly to destinations like VMware, but I'm looking for something that's Open Source / Free for use with VirtualBox.
If there are products and/or tutorials of how to convert my existing, physical installations into VB Guests, I'm very interested in knowing about them!
Thanks in advance.
Create Guest from Physical Machine???
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mpack
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Re: Create Guest from Physical Machine???
It would help if we knew what the guest was, as different operating systems have different problems.
Re: Create Guest from Physical Machine???
I'll take references for any...
I need to clone Windows (XP Pro and 7 Pro), SLES, Mac OS X, and maybe even Netware.
I need to clone Windows (XP Pro and 7 Pro), SLES, Mac OS X, and maybe even Netware.
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mpack
- Site Moderator
- Posts: 39134
- Joined: 4. Sep 2008, 17:09
- Primary OS: MS Windows 10
- VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
- Guest OSses: Mostly XP
Re: Create Guest from Physical Machine???
The process is called "P2V". Google for "P2V site:forums.virtualbox.org" and you should get plenty of hits. Internal search doesn't work with three letter words.