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Create Guest from Physical Machine???

Posted: 10. Mar 2012, 15:36
by meburdick
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.

Re: Create Guest from Physical Machine???

Posted: 10. Mar 2012, 17:16
by mpack
It would help if we knew what the guest was, as different operating systems have different problems.

Re: Create Guest from Physical Machine???

Posted: 10. Mar 2012, 17:22
by meburdick
I'll take references for any...

I need to clone Windows (XP Pro and 7 Pro), SLES, Mac OS X, and maybe even Netware.

Re: Create Guest from Physical Machine???

Posted: 10. Mar 2012, 17:30
by mpack
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.